Re: About reading a text-file from kernel

[Pravin <shindepravin@xxxxxxxxx>]

> The better way to get data from a file into kernel is -
>  1) Create a service script (/etc/init.d/foobar)
> 2) From this script, load your kernel modules
> 3) From this script, run a user program (say prog1)
> 4) Let 'prog1' read the rules from the file and make  'ioctl' calls to your
> module and submit these rules via them.
> 5) # chkconfig <your-script> on
Thanx for this method.
I have one doubt that, I am not writing my classifier as kernel module,
I am directly modifying existing code for this.
Can I still make use of 'ioctl' calls ?

I am little new to this kind of use of ioctl calls,
Can I get some examples, tutorials or existing systems where 'ioctl'
is been used for this kind of interaction?

Is it possible to use "/proc" filesystem over here, to so that in
"step 4)" in above method
the program 'prog1' will read the rules from file and then write them
into some file in /proc which will allow my kernel code to get access
to that data ?


> Regards,
> - Ratnadeep

Thanx once again.
Regards,
Pravin Shinde

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