On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:53:49AM +0530, Dipti Pawar wrote: > Hi > I read about call_usermodehelper. > But the problem is that is there any way to know the process we called using > call_usermodehelper is finished or not? I take it you did not read the documentation for that function. My word, why do we even write the stuff... http://lxr.linux.no/source/kernel/kmod.c#L214 > What is exit status? The exit status of what? > Because the next statement I am executing in my program must be executed > when call_usermodehelper has finished its work. > So I am not able to do this synchronization using call_usermodehelper(). Not true. See above. thanks, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/