> http://hardsid.sourceforge.net/ is someone is actually interested)
> that uses a kernel thread to do the actual work asynchronously from
> rest of the world. The thread is created when opening a character
> device and exits when the device is closed.
read frey's guide and look at some real code to see how to do this.
Think you are missing a reparent_to_init(). I don't know if bleeding
2.5 includes this in daemonize() yet.
You should really have asked this on kernelnewbies mailing list btw
regards
john
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