* Maslan <maslan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is it possible to call kern_open() from within a kernel thread anyway? > I think yes, It worked on the parent thread before creating a new kthread. > See OpenKETA source, its using the same approach. > > kern_open() depends on a file descriptor table, right? > Yes, it returns a fd in the curthread->td_retval[0], which i should > use within the same thread to deal with this file.
Didn't someone (Jeff Roberson?) develop some nice in-kernel API for accessing files some years ago? Why not use that? -- Ed Schouten <e...@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/
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