From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 15 22:43:51 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC96616A4CE for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 22:43:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay03.pair.com (relay03.pair.com [209.68.5.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1138343D55 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 22:43:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andrew@binturong.us) Received: (qmail 99085 invoked from network); 15 Apr 2005 22:43:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?83.245.26.71?) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 15 Apr 2005 22:43:47 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 83.245.26.71 Message-ID: <42604397.3090306@binturong.us> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 23:43:35 +0100 From: Andrew Tappert User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: call_usermodehelper equivalent? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 22:43:51 -0000 This is a question about FreeBSD kernel (module) programming. Is there an equivalent in FreeBSD to the Linux function 'call_usermodehelper' which wraps execve to do as its name suggests, call a user mode helper program? If there is, what is it? If not, can some kind person please point me to some code in the kernel--if there is any--which does something similar, so I may see how it's properly done? My searching thus far has been to no avail. Thanks, Andrew