Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 3 authors, 2011-02-01

storing the logs

From: Greg KH <hidden>
Date: 2011-02-01 03:39:29

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:38:30PM -0200, Mauro Romano Trajber wrote:
Are you sure you're doing it right ? Reading and writing files from within
the kernel space is bad thing to do.
Read this good article about that: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8110
 <http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8110>And if you want to do this
anyway, there are some pieces of code too ;-)
Yes, but you really don't want to do that.

Seriously.

Don't.

Bad things will happen and no one will be able to help you.

Use a "real" way to get data from the kernel to userspace (netlink,
pseudo-filesystem, device node, etc.)

good luck,

greg k-h
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