Re: [android-kernel] Re: Display Kernel Messages

2010-03-24 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:38 PM, perumal316 wrote: > Hi, > > I have come up with a kernel module doing monitoring of system calls > and will printk messages. Now I want to show these messages to user > through an application. What's wrong with the strace application? Or the kernel audit subsyste

Re: [android-kernel] Re: Display Kernel Messages

2010-03-24 Thread karthik poduval
Hi, If you want to monitor system calls for an aplication, you could make use of strace command or refer tot its code for your use case. Regards, Karthik Poduval On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:38 PM, perumal316 wrote: > Hi, > > I have come up with a kernel module doing monitoring of system calls >

[android-kernel] Re: Display Kernel Messages

2010-03-24 Thread perumal316
You mean I should use "dmesg>file.log" in the java program I am writing to read the printk messages? Regards, Perumal On Mar 24, 5:00 pm, Tirtha Kanti Ghosh wrote: > Though I am not sure about your needbut a simple solution which I can > think of is > > dmesg > file.log (or >> for appending

Re: [android-kernel] Re: Display Kernel Messages

2010-03-24 Thread Tirtha Kanti Ghosh
Though I am not sure about your needbut a simple solution which I can think of is dmesg > file.log (or >> for appending) read the file.log from your app. Now, how frequent you need to do dmesg>file.log, that's totally depends on your need. I mean this way you can at least read printk() mess

Re: [android-kernel] Re: Display Kernel Messages

2010-03-23 Thread Chris Stratton
You really want to be looking at generic linux kernel hacking guides as these arent really android specific questions. You might want to research how the dmesg command works, too. On Mar 23, 2010 11:38 PM, "perumal316" wrote: Hi, I have come up with a kernel module doing monitoring of system c

[android-kernel] Re: Display Kernel Messages

2010-03-23 Thread perumal316
Hi, I have come up with a kernel module doing monitoring of system calls and will printk messages. Now I want to show these messages to user through an application. I can write an application to read from file but not from "/proc/kmsg" where the printk messages are stored. So I think either ther