Subject: Re: building a userland interface to a kernel structure
To: Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.Stanford.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 01/13/1999 12:46:09
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Dustin Sallings wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Michael L. Hitch wrote:
>
> This is good for reading, but how might I, say, add an entry to a
> linked list in a kernel structure from userland? And where should I put
> this list?
You can't. You'll have to somehow talk to the kernel and have it allocate
the space. Like either an ioctl of some type.
Take care,
Bill