Hi Nilesh.

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Nilesh Tayade
<[email protected]> wrote:
...snip...
> I tried it, and it seems adding mutex_init() works as Mukti mentioned. I
> did get a kernel oops before (but no segfault). After adding
> mutex_init() there is no oops/segfault. The code, however, is reading
> the garbage, that needs to be fixed.

        char n[20];
        short a = *((short *)&n[0]);
        short b = *((short *)&n[2]);
        short c = *((short *)&n[4]);

This sets a b and c to have essentially random values.

                nbytes = read( fd, n, 40);

This causes the value of n to change. However, the values of a, b, and
c retain the same random values you assigned them above.

                printf( "\r a = %d \n ", a);
                printf("\r b = %d \n",b);
                printf("\r c = %d \n",c);

This prints the random values of a, b, and c rather than printing thee
values of n that you read in.

Dave Hylands

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