what about this?

http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/iomem.html

Olivier Crameri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently working on a project in which we are using UML to access
> the host os and perform some operations.
> More precisely, we would like to have a system call in UML that parses
> a file in the host os.
>
> Since the UML kernel is a host process, I naively thought that I could
> use regular C directly. Indeed, I was able to create my system call,
> and then have some other C files compiled using host os headers such
> as <stdio.h> and <stdlib.h> by putting them in the USER_OBJS list of
> the Makefile.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm having some weird issues that I can't really
> understand. I can read the file using fread, but only in a buffer that
> I allocated using um_kmalloc. If I use a buffer allocated by malloc,
> the fread fails. Then, even if I replace all  my mallocs by
> um_kmallocs, some libc functions (such as sscanf) don't seem to work
> properly. I guess I'm missing something, but I can't figure out what.
>
> If anyone of you can help me, I'd really appreciate,
>
> With best regards,
>
> Olivier
>
> P.S.: I'm using 2.6.15.6 with the latest 2.6.15 patch and the guest
> kernel runs in skas3 mode.
>
>
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