From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 17 00:13:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 116E61065674 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:13:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@compudoc.de) Received: from s15219232.onlinehome-server.info (s15219232.onlinehome-server.info [87.106.11.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67DE18FC0C for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:13:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@compudoc.de) Received: (qmail 9012 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2008 01:46:41 +0200 Received: from pd9e0ed16.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (HELO hidden) (217.224.237.22) by s15219232.onlinehome-server.info with SMTP; 17 Jul 2008 01:46:41 +0200 From: "David" To: Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:46:10 +0200 Message-ID: <002d01c8e79e$200078d0$60016a70$@de> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: Acjnnh+QvQgRHfrhQNKw0RY2sJLQBQ== Content-Language: de Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: reading a file in kernelmode X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:13:24 -0000 Hello, I'm developing a FreeBSD kernel module and I'm searching for a good solution to open/read/close a file. My goal is to generate a MD5-Hash of a given file (path). Open-Syscall seems to be improper. Any ideas/solutions/examples? Thanks a lot Greetings, David