Re: Calling userspace apps from within kernel

From: Erik Andersen (andersen@codepoet.org)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 01:39:45 EST

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On Tue Sep 26, 2000 at 03:18:54PM +1000, Daniel Walls wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if it is possible to execute a userspace application from
> within the kernel (particularly binfmt_elf.c)...
> something along the lines of execl()...
>
> If so, what is the name of the function used to do this?

static char * envp[MAX_INIT_ENVS+2] = { "HOME=/", "TERM=linux", NULL, };
execve("/bin/foo",argv,envp);

Just because you can do something does not, however,
make it a good idea...

-Erik

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