Library (ab)use in kernel land

Mike Bristow mike at urgle.com
Tue Aug 31 06:44:57 PDT 2004


On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 01:40:50PM -0700, Brian O'Shea wrote:
> That being said, there are a few analogs of the standard C
> library functions in the kernel, such as printf, strcpy, bcmp,
> qsort, etc.  You can find sources for them in src/sys/libkern/
> with prototypes in the src/sys/sys/libkern.h and src/sys/sys/systm.h
> header files.

And manual pages in section 9 of the manual, eg:

$ man 9 printf

will give you the docs for the printf that you can call in kernelspace.




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