1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>call_usermodehelper_exec</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Linux Kernel API"><link rel="up" href="modload.html#idp1125664212" title="Module Loading"><link rel="prev" href="API-call-usermodehelper-setup.html" title="call_usermodehelper_setup"><link rel="next" href="API-call-usermodehelper.html" title="call_usermodehelper"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">call_usermodehelper_exec</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-call-usermodehelper-setup.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th width="60%" align="center">Module Loading</th><td width="20%" align="right">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="API-call-usermodehelper.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-call-usermodehelper-exec"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>call_usermodehelper_exec &#8212; 
2     start a usermode application
3 </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">call_usermodehelper_exec </b>(</code></td><td>struct subprocess_info * <var class="pdparam">sub_info</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>int <var class="pdparam">wait</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1125698148"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>sub_info</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
4     information about the subprocessa
5    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>wait</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
6     wait for the application to finish and return status.
7     when UMH_NO_WAIT don't wait at all, but you get no useful error back
8     when the program couldn't be exec'ed. This makes it safe to call
9     from interrupt context.
10    </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1125701012"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
11   Runs a user-space application.  The application is started
12   asynchronously if wait is not set, and runs as a child of keventd.
13   (ie. it runs with full root capabilities).
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