Compiling and installing the scull devices: ----------------------------------------------- 1. Execute Make: make 2. If scull devices already exist then unload them first. sudo ./scull_unload This may ask you for your root password. 3. Load scull devices sudo ./scull_load 4. Check that devices are properly created. ls -ltr /dev/scull* 5. Change device permissions to 777 sudo chmod 777 /dev/scull* Testing the functioning of scull pipe devices: ------------------------------------------------- - Open a terminal window and write some data to the scull device using the following command: echo "Hello World" > /dev/scull0 - Check that the data is written to the device: more /dev/scull0 - Write some other data to the scull device: echo "Good bye" > /dev/scull0 - Observe that the earlier string, "Hello World", is overwritten by the string "Good bye".