Subject: Re: building a userland interface to a kernel structure
To: dustin sallings <dustin@spy.net>
From: David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 01/12/1999 11:31:59
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 12:08:25AM -0800, dustin sallings wrote:
>
> For a kernel modification I'm doing, I need to be able to build
> and maintain a simple array of (arrays|hashes|linked lists) from a
> userland process.
>
> I don't have the slightest idea where to put this in the kernel,
> what to name it, or how to interface it. Can someone give me an idea?
I'll tag onto this message and ask... I'd like to write a userland program
which can read the kernel disklist linked list. I've looked into the
kernel memory syscalls in a fair amount of detail, and looked at some
examples in the tree, but I can't find anything in the tree that
reads _structures_ from the kernel, just simple variables. I haven't
been able to make my code work.
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