On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 06:01 -0500, Gopu Bhaskar wrote:
> >
> > 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");
> }
the o/p's not over-written, instead the prompt is displayed
right after the string terminates.
>
> -Gopu
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