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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 10:53:32 +1000 (EST)
From: Neale Banks <neale@lowendale.com.au>
To: Chin-Tser Huang <chuang@cs.utexas.edu>
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Subject: Re: save variables to hard disk at kernel mode
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On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Chin-Tser Huang wrote:

> I would like to implement at the kernel a save that
> can periodically store the value of some variables
> to the hard disk. Could anyone please tell me what
> function can I use to achieve this? Will this save
> block the operation of other functions? Thank you
> very much for your help!

Write a module to publish the variables, and do teh rest in user-space
(e.g. cron-job)?

The book "Linux Device Drivers" (2nd Ed) does this kind of thing as an
example for PCI data.

HTH,
Neale.

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