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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:04:06 +1100
From: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
To: Kristian =?iso-8859-1?q?S=F8rensen?= <ks@cs.aau.dk>
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Subject: Re: Reading large /proc entry from kernel module
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>>>>> "Kristian" == Kristian S?rensen <ks@cs.aau.dk> writes:

Kristian> Hi all!  I have some trouble reading a 2346 byte /proc entry
Kristian> from our Umbrella kernel module.


Kristian> static int umb_proc_write(struct file *file, const char *buffer,
Kristian>                          unsigned long count, void *data) {
Kristian>	char *policy;
Kristian>	int *lbuf;
Kristian>	int i;

Here's your problem:  lbuf should be a char * not an int *.
When you look lbuf[0] you'll get the first four characters packed
into the int.
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Dr Peter Chubb  http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au  peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au
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