On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 08:29:15PM +0200, Vincenzo Mallozzi wrote: > > --- Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto: > > > On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 07:20:21PM +0000, Vincenzo > > Mallozzi wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I've read a reply mail of Jan Hudec about > > retrieving pid of a process created > > > by means of call_usermodehelper function. In this > > mail he suggests to patch > > > this function in order to get the pid searched. > > There's a way to do it witout > > > patching? > > > As example, can we search for the keventd child > > and then get the pid? > > > > Why do you want to know that pid from within the > > kernel? What will that > > allow you to accomplish? > > > > thanks, > > I'm developing a LKM to monitor multithreaded > processes. Odds are, this is better done in userspace. Good luck, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
