centos man page for call_usermodehelper

Query: call_usermodehelper

OS: centos

Section: 9

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CALL_USERMODEHELPER(9)						  Module Support					    CALL_USERMODEHELPER(9)

NAME
call_usermodehelper - prepare and start a usermode application
SYNOPSIS
int call_usermodehelper(char * path, char ** argv, char ** envp, int wait);
ARGUMENTS
path path to usermode executable argv arg vector for process envp environment for process wait wait for the application to finish and return status. when UMH_NO_WAIT don't wait at all, but you get no useful error back when the program couldn't be exec'ed. This makes it safe to call from interrupt context.
DESCRIPTION
This function is the equivalent to use call_usermodehelper_setup and call_usermodehelper_exec.
COPYRIGHT
Kernel Hackers Manual 3.10 June 2014 CALL_USERMODEHELPER(9)
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