From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Payasam Manohar <pmanohar@lantana.cs.iitm.ernet.in>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: user space program from keyboard driver
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:21:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1109625676.9273.26.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0502282118480.2017@lantana.cs.iitm.ernet.in>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-28 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-28 15:54 Payasam Manohar
2005-02-28 16:35 ` linux-os
2005-03-01 15:08 ` Payasam Manohar
2005-03-02 19:44 ` Helge Hafting
2005-02-28 21:21 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-03-01 3:41 ` Payasam Manohar
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