From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:43:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:43:34 -0500 Received: from cwbone.bsi.com.br ([200.194.240.1]:56638 "EHLO cwbone.bsi.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:43:23 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:38:29 -0200 (BRST) From: "Leonardo C. Filho" To: Xiaozhou Qiu cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: how to communicate between kernel and user space? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Maybe www.kerneli.org helps. []s //Leonardo On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Xiaozhou Qiu wrote: > Hi, > > I am sorry if this is a newbie's question. I am developing a kernel module > which needs to call some crypt functions implemented in user space. Since > those functions utilize openssl library, I assume there is no easy way to > port them into kernel. > > I wonder whether there is an easy and elegant way to call the user space > functions from the kernel and get the results, if /proc can not be used. If > anybody knows where I can find a crypt library in the kernel, that will be a > great help too. > > Thank you very much. > > Xiaozhou Qiu > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >