Re: How to talk with a kernel extension?

FROM : unc
DATE : Fri Nov 09 17:41:28 2007

Hi,

The GUI can say "kernel extension, allow all traffic". But the kernel 
extension can't say "GUI, we have a new log entry"? So how does the 
GUI get the log entries?

Bye,
Nils

Am 08.11.2007 um 17:44 schrieb Stefan Werner:

> On 11/8/07, <email_removed> <<email_removed>> wrote:

>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to build something like a firewall. I think, I'll need a
>> kernel extension for that. But how can the GUI application "talk" 
>> with
>> the kext? The GUI will show the blocked and the allowed connections 
>> in
>> a table view. How could it get this informations?

>
> You have several options:
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/boundaries/chapter_14_section_1.html
>
> -Stefan