Thanks, Anil.

Best Regards,
Daniel (Youngwhan) Song



On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:26 PM, askb <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 17:26 -0800, Daniel (Youngwhan) Song wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am just curious that if it is possible to launch user application,
> > say, "ls" or "ps", in kernel space.
> >
>
> Following facilitates calling a user space function from a kernel
> module:
>
> int call_usermodehelper(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, enum
> umh_wait wait)
>
>
> > If it is possible, could you share how it can be achieved?
> >
>
> Here is a sample program:
> http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~arkeller/linux/kernel_user_space_howto.html#s7<http://people.ee.ethz.ch/%7Earkeller/linux/kernel_user_space_howto.html#s7>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Anil
>
>

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