#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,2,0)
static ssize_t module_output(
struct file *file, /* The file read */
char *buf, /* The buffer to put data to (in the user segment) */
size_t len, /* The length of the buffer */
loff_t *offset) /* Offset in the file - ignore */
#else
static int module_output(
struct inode *inode, /* The inode read */
struct file *file, /* The file read */
char *buf, /* The buffer to put data to (in the user segment) */
int len) /* The length of the buffer */
#endif
{
static int finished = 0;
int i;
char message[MESSAGE_LENGTH+30];
/* We return 0 to indicate end of file, that we have
* no more information. Otherwise, processes will
* continue to read from us in an endless loop. */
if (finished) {
finished = 0;
return 0;
}
/* We use put_user to copy the string from the kernel's
* memory segment to the memory segment of the process
* that called us. get_user, BTW, is
* used for the reverse. */
sprintf(message, "Last input:%s", Message);
for(i=0; i
/* Notice, we assume here that the size of the message
* is below len, or it will be received cut. In a real
* life situation, if the size of the message is less
* than len then we'd return len and on the second call
* start filling the buffer with the len+1'th byte of the message. */
finished = 1;
return i; /* Return the number of bytes "read" */
}
/* This function receives input from the user when the
* user writes to the /proc file. */
#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,2,0)
static ssize_t module_input(
struct file *file, /* The file itself */
const char *buf, /* The buffer with input */
size_t length, /* The buffer's length */
loff_t *offset) /* offset to file - ignore */
#else
static int module_input(
struct inode *inode, /* The file's inode */
struct file *file, /* The file itself */
const char *buf, /* The buffer with the input */
int length) /* The buffer's length */
#endif
{
int i;
/* Put the input into Message, where module_output will later be able to use it */
for (i=0; i
#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,2,0)
get_user(Message[i], buf+i);
/* In version 2.2 the semantics of get_user changed,
* it not longer returns a character, but expects a
* variable to fill up as its first argument and a
* user segment pointer to fill it from as the its second.
*
* The reason for this change is that the version 2.2
* get_user can also read an short or an int. The way
* it knows the type of the variable it should read
* is by using sizeof, and for that it needs the
* variable itself. */
#else
Message[i] = get_user(buf+i);
#endif
