Re: user space program from keyboard driver
From: Lee Revell (rlrevell_at_joe-job.com)
Date: 02/28/05
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To: Payasam Manohar <pmanohar@lantana.cs.iitm.ernet.in> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:21:15 -0500
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 21:24 +0530, Payasam Manohar wrote:
> hai all,
> I am a newbie to kernel, I want to work on linux kernel modules.
> My task is to call a user program from keyboard driver under certain
> conditions. I know that we can call user program using
> call_usermodehelper(), but we can not call it direcly from driver as it is
> a interrupt context. So we need to call using schedule_work(). But I need
> more clarification on these points. How to call user program from the
> keyboard driver. Please give ur ideas for doing this.
>
Are you just trying to write a keystroke logger?
Lee
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