File creation using KLD
Pranav Sawargaonkar
pranav.sawargaonkar at gmail.com
Tue Feb 7 08:20:51 PST 2006
Thank you for giving me guideline on this topic.
Because of that I succeed in creating a file and writing on it.
On 2/6/06, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 11:42:04PM +0530, Pranav Sawargaonkar wrote:
> +> Hi
> +> I want to create a file on disk using KLD and then tryout some
> reading and
> +> writing stuff on that file,so can any one suggest me any solution i.e.
> +> functions to use and locks which i need to carry out this.
>
> This is a bit tricky, ie. there is no clean API for this, but it is of
> course possible.
>
> There are few frameworks in the kernel that do exactly this. One of them
> is alq(9), so take a look at sys/kern/kern_alq.c.
>
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