Hi, If you want to monitor system calls for an aplication, you could make use of strace command or refer tot its code for your use case.
Regards, Karthik Poduval On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:38 PM, perumal316 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have come up with a kernel module doing monitoring of system calls > and will printk messages. Now I want to show these messages to user > through an application. > > I can write an application to read from file but not from "/proc/kmsg" > where the printk messages are stored. > > So I think either there is a way to show "/proc/kmsg' or have to write > the printk messages to a file then read from it. > > Regards, > Perumal > > > > On Mar 24, 11:29 am, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:21 PM, perumal316 <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > I want to show the kernel messages to user through an application. > > > > Why would you want to do that? What are you trying > > to achieve here? > > > > > In Android the kernel messages are stored in "/proc/kmsg" but when I > > > tried to display that nothing is coming out. I think it is because > > > "proc/kmsg" is not a file as I can display files stored in "/data". > > > > Look at how the syslog program works and use that same interface. > > > > > I have also found I could not write to file from kernel. So how to I > > > get the kernel messages available in the userspace so that it can be > > > displayed? > > > > You almost never want to do that. > > > > What specific problem are you trying to solve here? > > > > thanks, > > > > greg k-h > > -- > unsubscribe: > [email protected]<android-kernel%[email protected]> > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-kernel+ > unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE > ME" as the subject. > -- Regards, Karthik Venugopal Poduval Ph: 09384808733 -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-kernel+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
