>> See i think we are talking about kernel programming . What i mean to >> say is >> that there is only two ways to communiacte to user space . One through >> a >> registerd read or write functions Well, for what it's worth - I have tried to write to a file from the kernel this way, and succeeded: --- <snip> --- fd = sys_open(filename, O_SYNC|O_APPEND, 0); sys_write(fd, msg, msglen); sys_close(fd); --- <snip> --- >From all the discussions about writing to / reading from files directly from the kernel, I'm sure this is a dirty thing to do. Could someone please shed some light on *why* it is bad to write to files directly from the kernel? Thanks, K. -- There are things known and things unknown, in between lie the Doors -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
