Hey Alex, The current version? That is a library, quite ugly actually. LD_PRELOAD=/lib/LIBRARY /command/to/execute The preload overrides the libc calls to open/read/write files.The command can then access the environment sector, read only. If the environment contains a /bin/init, then the file will be available from /bin/init if the library is preloaded. Memory footprint is around 10kbyte RAM, or something like that. Its probably only usable for root, as it requires read access to the block device, something you wouldn't want to give all users.
As a kernel module I would make it a proper filesystem so you can do something like mount /dev/blockdev /path -t bbfs.
That kernel driver will probably be a long-term project, though. Cheers, Michel On 03/26/2014 12:58 PM, Alexander Aring wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:53:03PM +0100, Michel Stam wrote:In case anyone is interested; for a barebox x86 project I wrote a library that overrides fopen/fclose/open/close/etc a while back, which allows read access to the environment sector if properly configured. I managed to get it working on arm/mips with mtdblock as well. In the near future I'd like to write a kernel driver to read the filesystem properly, this was more of an experiment.How does it work? As a kernel module, as registered filesystem under /proc/filesystems ? With fuse as userspace filesystem? Or like the inotify solution? - Alex
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