Whoops! I'm sorry, I did not see Amit's post above, it has pretty much the same kind of code in my post. More elaborate, though. On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:02:51 +0530, Karthik Subramanian <karthik301176@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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 > -- 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/
