call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe(9)

call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe9

Set up a pipe to be used for stdin

Usage

int call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe(struct subprocess_info * sub_info, struct file ** filp);

Arguments

sub_info

a subprocess_info returned by call_usermodehelper_setup

filp

set to the write-end of a pipe

Overview

This constructs a pipe, and sets the read end to be the stdin of the subprocess, and returns the write-end in *filp.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0

From linux-manual-2.6.32 2.6.32-48squeeze6 in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.