Manoj Joseph wrote:
Darren J Moffat wrote:
Is my understanding correct? If it is, does Solaris have an
alternative for exporting more arbitrary information like Linux does?
Yes OpenSolaris does this in a much more structured way that the
arbitrary format text files that Linux does.
For most of the things you do cat /proc/<muble>/<sometextfile> there
is either a special admin command, or the data is available via
kstats. See kstats(1M) which is a perl program interface to the kstats
library functionality.
Thank you Darren for your response!
The problem I am trying to solve is that I want to export to userland
some information that is available in a kernel module - let's say my
kernel module.
The approaches that are being considered are 1) using the proc
interface, 2) using ioctls.
Looks like 1 is not possible and 2 is the way out. Is iocts the way to
go or is there a better mechanism you could suggest?
If you just need to read the information from userland then kstats might
be the answer.
If you need to read and write then an ioctl is very likely the easiest way.
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Darren J Moffat
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