Fwd: storing the logs

Ashok Babu ashok3d at gmail.com
Wed Feb 9 05:48:40 EST 2011


> Am Montag, den 07.02.2011, 00:16 +0530 schrieb mohit verma:
>
>> i create a socket to communicate to the user space app to listen to
>> and responsible for loggin ... via   my_sock=netlink_creat_sock()
>> i create my own  logging message format to send it via netlink
>> interface.
>> then  how can i let my module know  which process to bind it to? i
>> mean to bind my socket to any user space application i need the pid of
>> that one
>
> haven't tried netlink so maybe this won't be much help.
> isn't it possible to just bind to somewhere on the network using
>
> int kbind(ksocket_t socket, struct sockaddr *address, int address_len)
>
> from http://ksocket.sourceforge.net/  ?
>
> if i'm not mistaken you won't need any pid
>
> good luck,
>
> Lutz
>

Why don't you use debugfs or procfs and use the application to read from it ?



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