From: Kristian =?iso-8859-1?q?S=F8rensen?= <ks@cs.aau.dk>
Organization: Aalborg University
To: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Reading large /proc entry from kernel module
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On Wednesday 09 March 2005 00:04, Peter Chubb wrote:
> >>>>> "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.
Okay, thanks! :-D That solves the first error :)

However, I still only get the the first 1003 characters, when I traverse the 
buffer :-/

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Kristian S?rensen
E-mail: ipqw@users.sf.net, Phone: +45 29723816
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