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Subject: Re: File creation using KLD
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Thank you for giving me guideline on this topic.
 Because of that I succeed in creating a file and writing on it.

On 2/6/06, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 11:42:04PM +0530, Pranav Sawargaonkar wrote:
> +> Hi
> +> I want  to create a file on disk using  KLD and then tryout some
> reading and
> +> writing stuff on  that file,so can any one suggest me any solution i.e=
.
> +> functions to use and locks which i need to carry out this.
>
> This is a bit tricky, ie. there is no clean API for this, but it is of
> course possible.
>
> There are few frameworks in the kernel that do exactly this. One of them
> is alq(9), so take a look at sys/kern/kern_alq.c.
>
> --
> Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
> pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
> FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
>
>
>