Re: Help in adding userspace function hooks to kernel

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On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 03:49:59PM +0530, Pravin wrote:
> On 7/11/07, Erik Mouw <mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The usual solution to this problem is to have a small userland helper
>> that reads the policy file and feed it to the kernel through a device
>> node.
>
>
> Thanx for this information about userland helper.
> I tried googleing about userland helper in kernel, but I didn't get any
> helpful information about it.
> Can u just point me towards some examples or documentations about userland
> helpers, which will help me in understanding how they work

Even 'cat' can be a userland helper:

  cat policyfile > /dev/yourdevicedrivernode


Erik

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