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From: "Joseph Koshy" <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Writing to a file
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> So, could anyone please give me a detailed
> explanation of how to open a file in kernel and write to it - best data
> types to use, functions, what to look out for, maybe a link to tutorial
> or manual that deals with this (if such a thing exists), etc.?

I'm not aware of such a tutorial.  I would suggest that you start with the
source for alq_open() in "/sys/kern/kern_alq.c", looking up the manual
pages for all the functions it calls as needed.

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