> > hi all, > > I had written a small character driver under kernel 2.4.20. > For starters I had implemented it's read method only. This > would put a constant string "hello" into the user-space > buffer. The problem I'm seeing is that when i "cat" my device > it does not print anything on the console (i.e cat and not the This can be because whatever is printed on the console is overwritten by the shell prompt when the cat command returns. Something similar happens if you run the following prog int main() { printf("hello"); } -Gopu -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/