You can view the output on the console (not in X11). Dave. On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 23:57, so usp wrote: > Hi, > > I´m implementing a syscall and I want to write some > information on the user terminal. I´ve heard that > using printk(KERN_ALERT"String") could return "String" > to the terminal, but it doesn´t. It just modifies the > file /var/log/messages. My distribution is Fedora Core > 2 (kernel 2.6.5). Did somebody get the same problem? > Did I do something wrong? The syscall is working > perfectly, the only problem is that I want to return > information to the user, and using the copy_to_user > function isn´t appropriate, once there are lots of > information (more than 5) I want to retrieve, with > different types (not only string). > > Thanks > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Yahoo! Mail - agora com 100MB de espaço, anti-spam e antivírus grátis! > http://br.info.mail.yahoo.com/ > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > >
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