storing the logs

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Mon Jan 31 22:39:29 EST 2011


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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