Writing a plain text file to disk from kernel space

Joseph Koshy joseph.koshy at gmail.com
Mon May 21 11:06:46 UTC 2007


ls> So, I'm looking for a way to manually open up a file from within
ls> kernel space and dump characters into it.

des> Note that it opens the file in userland and passes it down to the
des> kernel.  You may want to consider a similar mechanism.

hwpmc(4) takes a similar approach, using a dedicated kthread to
to perform writes.

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