Re: user space program from keyboard driver

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 21:24 +0530, Payasam Manohar wrote:
> hai all,
>     I am a newbie to kernel, I want to work on linux kernel modules.
> My task is to call a user program from keyboard driver under certain 
> conditions. I know that we can call user program using 
> call_usermodehelper(), but we can not call it direcly from driver as it is 
> a interrupt context. So we need to call using schedule_work(). But I need 
> more clarification on these points. How to call user program from the 
> keyboard driver. Please give ur ideas for doing this.
> 

Are you just trying to write a keystroke logger?

Lee

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