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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:38:29 -0200 (BRST)
From: "Leonardo C. Filho" <lcf@bsi.com.br>
To: Xiaozhou Qiu <xzqiu@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: how to communicate between kernel and user space?
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Hi,

Maybe www.kerneli.org helps.

[]s
//Leonardo

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Xiaozhou Qiu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am sorry if this is a newbie's question. I am developing a kernel module
> which needs to call some crypt functions implemented in user space. Since
> those functions utilize openssl library, I assume there is no easy way to
> port them into kernel.
>
> I wonder whether there is an easy and elegant way to call the user space
> functions from the kernel and get the results, if /proc can not be used.  If
> anybody knows where I can find a crypt library in the kernel, that will be a
> great help too.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Xiaozhou Qiu
>
>
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