This probably is a silly question, but.... Is is possible to open a file, mmap() it into memory, then pass the address of that map via an ioctl() call to the kernel, which will copy_from_user() that data? Yeah, that's an odd concept, I know... I could always malloc() some memory, read the file in, and then ioctl() it. But, if I could get away with a direct mmap(), that would be much better for me. Matt -- Matthew Dharm Home: [email protected] Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver I say, what are all those naked people doing? -- Big client to Stef User Friendly, 12/14/1997
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