Firing some shell command like ls,mkdir dir-name via kernel module

ankur0921 · 06-10-2010, 04:42 PM

Hi All,

How can we fire a shell command like ls,./a.out automatically in kernel space via a kernel module ? i.e. replacement of system() function of user space into kernel space.We need to develop a kernel module which can fire some shell command let say "firefox www.google.com" automatically to open google automatically from module.

Thanks in advance..

ankur

paulsm4 · 06-10-2010, 05:02 PM

Hi -

You have several options. I would consider using the "user-mode helper API":

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/li...er-space-apps/

ankur0921 · 06-11-2010, 04:24 AM

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your interest.I need to implement it on the fedora 6,linux 2.6.18 kernel.I think the api described in the provided link, are not available version i have.Do you know some alternative for my requirement ?

ankur