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lml@beonline.com.au wrote: > I have a set of counters in a Kernel module that i want to export to a > userspace application. I originally decided to use a /proc entry and parse > the output whenever the userspace application needed this data, however, > i need more than the 4096 that is allowed in /proc and i'm not too keen > on parsing large chunks of text anyway. > > What i would like to do is copy these slabs of text from the kernel to my > userspace application (whenever the application requests it). I've seen the > 'copy_to_user' function and it looks usefull, but have no idea where to start > or how to use it :-/ > > Can someone provide and example or point me in the right direction? Or is there > a better place to ask this question? relayfs has been designed with this type of requirements in mind: http://www.opersys.com/relayfs/index.html Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || karim@opersys.com || 1-866-677-4546 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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