Re: How to run user level program in modules

[Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:53:49AM +0530, Dipti Pawar wrote:
> Hi
> I read about call_usermodehelper.
> But the problem is that is there any way to know the process we called using
> call_usermodehelper is finished or not?

I take it you did not read the documentation for that function.  My
word, why do we even write the stuff...
	http://lxr.linux.no/source/kernel/kmod.c#L214

> What is exit status?

The exit status of what?

> Because the next statement I am executing in my program must be executed
> when call_usermodehelper has finished its work.
> So I am not able to do this synchronization using call_usermodehelper().

Not true.  See above.

thanks,

greg k-h

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