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Date:      Wed, 18 Jul 2001 14:32:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        suid <suid@kjell.utb.falun.se>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: KLD Programming
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0107181430230.14676-100000@jade>
In-Reply-To: <20010718182910.902D2AE08@kjell.utb.falun.se>

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Yes. But it is not easy. Look at code vfs_vnops.c. You can let a user
process open a file and then push the file descriptor into kernel via a
special system call. Search the mailing list archive and you will find
discussions on how to add a new system call.

-Zhihui

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, suid wrote:

>  
>  Godday.
> 
>  I'm quite new to KLD-programming and have a question:
> 
>   Is it possible to read/write to files from a module without 
>   too much effort, but still staying in kernelspace? 
> 
> 
>  /suid-
> 
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