> Hello
> I am experimenting with kernel modules and am trying to write to a file.
> This is the syscall function (sorry of my terminology is messed up)
>
> static int write_file(struct proc *p, void *arg) {
> struct write_args *wstructure;
> struct open_args *ostructure;
>
> ostructure->path="/tmp/blehfile";
> ostructure->flags = O_CREAT;
> ostructure->mode = 0;
> wstructure->fd = open(p, ostructure);
> wstructure->buf = "Testing\n";
> wstructure->nbytes = 8;
> return write(p, wstructure);
> }
>
> Im not sure why, but that code crashes. Was created with:
> echo Hi > /tmp/blehfile. Also, is there an official freebsd kernel hackers
> guide? Kernel programming is very interesting. ;-)
Write expects the data to be in userspace; you can't call it from the
kernel. (This is a bug.)
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