Re: mailer daemons in kernel

["Hareesh Nagarajan" <hareesh.nagarajan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/28/06, sunny chawla <sun4udee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
> I am writing a kernel module and I want to send the messages logged by my
> module to a user specified mail-id. I heard that mailer daemons in the
> kernel can be used for this. Can anyone specify more details???

Mailer deamons inside the kernel!?! You serious? Why don't you just
export the data from your module to a buffer that can be accessed in
user space (via relayfs perhaps) and then have a process in userspace
that periodically selects() on the buffer (which is probably a file)
and sends out an email to the ``user specified mail-id")?

Having a mailer daemon inside the kernel, would at best, be described
as a bizarre feature.

./hareesh

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