of course, beware that this assumes process context.
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Jesse Pollard wrote:
>
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I have developed a driver in which I use messages to be printed for =
> > > debugging. When using X Windows terminal I am not able to view the =
> > > messages, while I can see them when using a console. Can I have a =
> > > console window in X Windows where I can view the printed messages.
> >
> > Have you tried running the "xconsole" utility? It is supposed to redirect
> > the /dev/console messages to the xconsole window, and I assume it still
> > works.
> >
>
> You can use process' current->tty (if not NULL) and call the
> tty->driver.write() routine directly.
>
> This is covered in Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide (see
> Coriolis, Linux Programming White Papers, page 288). The idea goes like
> this:
>
> print_string(char *str)
> {
> struct tty_struct *tty = current->tty;
>
> (*tty->driver).write(tty, 0, str, strlen(str));
> (*tty->driver).write(tty, 0, "\015\012", 2);
> }
>
> How about this one?
>
> Regards,
> Tigran
>
>
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