On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:51:56PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > Userland prorams do not share memory or symbols with the kernel at all > that is a fundamental thing in Unix. Your code just references a bunch > of uninitialized vars. > > Chekc opendev(3) (source in src/lib/libutil/opendev.c) which is a > userland function to do the translation you want. Note it interfaces > with the kernel via ioctl(2), the actual work is done by the diskmap > device driver that calls disk_map(), all in kernel mode.
Funny, I first looked at opendev(3) and the DIOCMAP ioctl before I went on to disk_map(). Obviously I missed something. Will have a look at opendev(3) again. Thanks a lot for the pointer. Frank. -- Frank Brodbeck <f...@guug.de>
