On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 01:18:46AM +0100, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> > [...]
> > Well.. you'd need an explicit kernel/userspace flag as far as I can see.
> > Like uio does.
> 
> isn't there allready one? i.e the VOP_IOCTL() call does call with `struct 
> proc *' being zero isn't it? i.e. its not afiliated with a process. This 
> fact enough points that its kernel-called isn't it? A copyout_proc() like 
> call with the proc pointer passed would then know what to do.

Would proc still be NULL if the IOCTL is called from a kernel thread ?

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