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Re: reading a file from a module

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:56:20AM -0500, Raghu R. Arur wrote:
> 
>  I am facing problems during reading a file from my module. The file is a 
> proc file.

Ick.  In short, do not do this.  Please reconsider your design.  At the
very least, since you want to get something that is within /proc, you
can get access to the kernel structures that are providing it.

See the archives of this list for more reasons why not to ever try to
read a file from within the kernel.

thanks,

greg k-h
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