Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:25:48 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: greenc@rl.af.mil (Charles Green) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sending messages from a lkm Message-ID: <199801302025.MAA16161@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <34D2015F.60A107C5@rl.af.mil> from Charles Green at "Jan 30, 98 11:35:43 am"
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Charles Green writes: > I have an unusual question, I've written a loadable kernel > module and I would like to be able to pass messages from > the lkm to an external application. What would the most > efficient way of doing this be? The way that SKIP does it is by creating a new device. Then the user code opens that device (/dev/skip) and does whatever. Check out the SKIP port if interested in the details of how it works: /usr/ports/security/skip. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com
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