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From: "Joseph Koshy" <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
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Cc: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@room52.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Writing a plain text file to disk from kernel space
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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.

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