2005-01-11 12:13:02

by sounak chakraborty

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Subject: syslog with syscall3

dear sir,
i am facing some problem when i want to retrieve the
lines of

information from the log file i.e from
/var/log/messages
i am using syslog function with syscall3 macro.it is
showing the output

correctly but whenever i am declaring the structures
of sockets it is

showing segmentation fault
how to correctt it
is it so that my syscall 3 macro changing the program
to kernel mode

and all the socket functions are not in or different
in kernel mode ?
then what will be the possible solution if i want t
retrieve the

information from logfile and send it to a file.
thanks in advance
sounak

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2005-01-11 16:58:04

by Randy.Dunlap

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Subject: Re: syslog with syscall3

sounak chakraborty wrote:
> dear sir,
> i am facing some problem when i want to retrieve the
> lines of
> information from the log file i.e from /var/log/messages

> i am using syslog function with syscall3 macro.it is
> showing the output
> correctly but whenever i am declaring the structures
> of sockets it is showing segmentation fault

Are there any oops messages in the kernel log?

Please post your source code (it is userspace or in-kernel?).

TIA.

> how to correctt it
> is it so that my syscall 3 macro changing the program
> to kernel mode
> and all the socket functions are not in or different
> in kernel mode ?
> then what will be the possible solution if i want t
> retrieve the information from logfile and send it to a file.

> thanks in advance
> sounak

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~Randy