>Darren J Moffat wrote: > >>> Is my understanding correct? If it is, does Solaris have an >>> alternative for exporting more arbitrary information like Linux does? >> >> Yes OpenSolaris does this in a much more structured way that the >> arbitrary format text files that Linux does. >> >> For most of the things you do cat /proc/<muble>/<sometextfile> there is >> either a special admin command, or the data is available via kstats. See >> kstats(1M) which is a perl program interface to the kstats library >> functionality. > >Thank you Darren for your response! > >The problem I am trying to solve is that I want to export to userland >some information that is available in a kernel module - let's say my >kernel module. > >The approaches that are being considered are 1) using the proc >interface, 2) using ioctls. > >Looks like 1 is not possible and 2 is the way out. Is iocts the way to >go or is there a better mechanism you could suggest?
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