user malloc from kernel

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Sep 29 07:37:23 PDT 2003


In message <811112091.20030929172247 at inbox.ru>, earthman writes:
>hi
>
>
>how to allocate some memory chunk
>in user space memory from kernel code?
>how to do it correctly?

You shouldn't and it would be very trick to do right if at all.

Try to tell us what you're trying to do and maybe we can find
a better way to do that ?

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