Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 23:31:59 -0600 (CST) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: mike@smith.net.au Cc: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File I/O in kernel land (was: Re: 2nd warning: 2.2.6 BETA begins in 10 days!) Message-ID: <199801270531.XAA04181@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <199801261506.BAA00422@word.smith.net.au> (message from Mike Smith on Tue, 27 Jan 1998 01:36:33 %2B1030) References: <199801261506.BAA00422@word.smith.net.au>
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>> With that in mind, I have a "bouncing logo" screen saver lkm (think >> daemon_saver_mod crossed with splashkit) I'd like to submit. However, >> I'd like to have the logo as a separate file rather than compile it >> into the lkm, but I haven't had much luck finding out how to do file >> I/O in kernel land. Could somebody give me a hint before i go berserk >> and read the entire kernel source to find out? :) > It's extremely tedious. You'd be better off adding an ioctl hook to > the screensaver module and adding an extra console ioctl to pass > commands to the screensaver. I must be missing something here. What would be sending the commands, so that he gets the logo file? -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped
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