Re: ask for kernel module programming

Venkatram Tummala <venkatram867@xxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:18:53 -0700

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:01 AM, piyush moghe <pmkernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Are IOCTL's also the way to enter into the kernel?

Yes, they are.

Thanks
Venkatram Tummala 

Regards,
Piyush

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:22 PM, mohit verma <mohit89mlnc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

yape sri u right,
jhoni , as i said about gate discriptors ,they sre nothing but the gateway to handle system calls and interrupt hanlders to be handled by kernel ( though system calls are a kind of interrupt handling).