Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:15:25 +0100 (BST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: executing a user space function in kernel module |
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 mdaljeet@in.ibm.com wrote: > In Linux, is it possible to execute a function in kernel which is a part of > user application > and hence a part of user address space??
the canonical way of doing it is to compile that function into an executable ELF file and then use standard Linux kernel API exec_usermodehelper() (see kernel/kmod.c) in a separate kernel thread like request_module() does.
Regards, Tigran
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