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I want to modify the linux kernel 2.4 to treat the compressed files as the directory & allow all the directory operations to be performed on them.
This modification will obsolate all the Compression & Decompression tools avilable today,like GUNzip etc.

I want to do this as my semester project.
I have around 3 months with me.
Please tell me about its feasibility.

I'm unable to add content to KernelTrap for the next two or three weeks, as I'm in the middle of a move. Once settled down into my new home, I hope to find much more time for KernelTrap than I've had in recent months.

I recently hired Trae McCombs, founder of themes.org and linux.com, to give KernelTrap an improved look. The theme is not completely finished yet, but is ready to be previewed. I don't expect everyone to like the new look, but would be interested in hearing about any technical problems people may run into it so we can get them resolved before the new theme goes live. Drupal has been upgraded from 4.5 on the live site to 4.7 on the new site. Please leave any comments about the new site here, or drop me an email.

I am inserting a module into kernel 2.6...._FC5 and getting error "Nothing to be done for all" in Makefile while exceuting Makefile...

Please send me good examples,, if anyone had experienced before like this!
Thank you

Hi, I found a reference to a poll conducted at kerneltrap on version control applications but I cant find it on the site, Are old poll's kept? any info I can get would be awsome,
thanks

I can't seem to add a comment to the story on the main page about the documentation to the Linux memory barrier API. There is simply no "add new comment button" like there is on all the other main page postings.

Could this be because it was posted by Amit instead of Jermey?

Thannks!

KernelTrap.org experienced some unexpected downtime today as the data center housing the KernelTrap server suffered a prolonged power outage. The ever-helpful Oregon State University Open Source Lab [story] explains, "this morning the OSL data center suffered a power outage with the generator eventually failing," going on to note, "we will be meeting to find out what failed and how to prevent it in the future." All systems are returned to normal, and we should not see any further problems.

I would like to submit my article or news to this site, but have problem converting my code to look nicely (text fomratting :(

anyhow, here's an article on numerical systems and their transformation (conversion) I worte... hope it helps someone!!

Numerical Systems and Transformations

Is there a mechanism for a kernel module to register for a specified process exit notification. In our example the kernel module allocates certain resources for the process and in the event of abnormal termination of the process, we would like to clear the resources allocated by the kernel module.. Any suggestions on how process exit notification can be propagated to the kernel module?

Hello everyone!

I have a particularly vexing problem. For part of my research, I would like to know what 'kernel-mode calls' a particular system call is making. I am aware that strace allows us to see what low level system calls are made at the kernel-mode, user-mode interface. The problem with strace is that it stops at the lowest possible level of user mode. For my purposes, I need to know what those particular low-level user mode system calls are actually doing with regard to the kernel.

Hello,

Is it possible for Kernel to "write" to userspace asynchronously to a program which does not "sleep" on read()?

The userspace opens my device, registrants itself and provides the address where the mydev will write a value when something changes.

ioctl (MYEVENT_ID, &value);

I do not want to keep the userspace in sleep on device, it is not essential to notify it when exactly the value is being changed, I just like mydev to "write" to userspace asynchronously like to shared memory.

KernelTrap is now offering AdSense revenue sharing on a trial basis. To participate, you will first need a Google AdSense account (follow the link within if you do not already have an AdSense account). Next, you will need to create a KernelTrap user account and enter your publically viewable google_ad_client ID. Finally, contribute original and relevant content to KernelTrap, and 80% of the profits generated will be automatically credited to your AdSense account. This applies to new forum postings, as well as personal blogs. Inapproriate or otherwise not relevant content will be removed, and the offending user accounts will be blocked. This is a new program that I am doing on a trial basis, if you have any problems with funds not appearing in your AdSense account please send an email to jeremy@kerneltrap.org and I will help track down the problem so that future funds are properly credited to your account. The goal is to encourage submission of useful original content related to kernel development -- if instead this leads to the contribution of useless or offtopic posts, the program will be canceled.

I'll be completely offline for the rest of the month, and thus unable to make updates to KernelTrap [blog]. I am currently displaying the ten most recently updated forum discussions on the front age. Please help out by submitting relevant kernel articles into the appropriate forum. I'm continuing to search for ways to further liven these web pages during stretches that I personally have limited time. Discussion on related ideas is welcome here.

Hi,
I work on XP from few days i am experiencing a funny problemon my pc. what happens is while i move my mouse here and there suddenly it works on its own it open start menu, folders, closes some windows and deleted some files. i have tried to control it by lifting the mouse up while its doing htis funny functions it stops doing all these but again whn i put my mouse down it do all the above things and it does it for 30 seconds and again to normal.

Hello everyone,
I am using a embedded linux kernel.
I am facing some problems related to inconsistency betwwen
cache and system memory.
what shall i do?

Hi all,
i want information about how to install and use UML(User Mode Linux).
Plz suggest me some links............
And also some links from where i will get it for fedora core.