Re: About reading a text-file from kernel

[Andrea Gasparini <gaspa@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pravin spiffera, alle lunedì 04 giugno 2007 circa:
> 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 ?

An ioctl call expects to be called on a file, so you need a file... it can 
be either a device, a /proc file, or whatever you can open().

> Can I get some examples, tutorials or existing systems where 'ioctl'
> is been used for this kind of interaction?

you can find it here:
http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
in the sixth chapter. (i can't remember well if it's exactly the 
sixth...) ;)

bye!
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