Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 11:06:45 +0000 From: "Joseph Koshy" <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=" <des@des.no> Cc: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@room52.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Writing a plain text file to disk from kernel space Message-ID: <84dead720705210406s79da5cf7t753394d9374fd3f2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86646ugywf.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <4649349D.4060101@room52.net> <86646ugywf.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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ls> So, I'm looking for a way to manually open up a file from within ls> kernel space and dump characters into it. des> Note that it opens the file in userland and passes it down to the des> kernel. You may want to consider a similar mechanism. hwpmc(4) takes a similar approach, using a dedicated kthread to to perform writes. -- FreeBSD Volunteer, http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy
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