Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:25:13 +0200 From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux call_usermodehelper equivalent in freebsd? Message-ID: <20050417122513.GA3106@britannica.bec.de> In-Reply-To: <426249D0.6010504@binturong.us> References: <426249D0.6010504@binturong.us>
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On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 12:34:40PM +0100, Andrew Tappert wrote: > Is there an equivalent in FreeBSD to the Linux kernel function > 'call_usermodehelper' which wraps execve to do as its name suggests, > call a user mode helper program? BSD kernels normally don't try to execute helper programs. Setting up a process from scratch is not trivial work. Can you give us for information on what you want to do? Maybe there is a better solution available. Joerg > > 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 (i.e., exec's a > usermode program from the kernel), so I may see how it's properly done? > In what context is it ok just to do the exec? How do I set it up? > > Thanks, > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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