From: "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" <filia@softhome.net>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Pankaj Garg <PGarg@MEGISTO.com>,
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
Subject: Re: Messaging between kernel modules and User Apps
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:56:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F44F9D0.5010606@softhome.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <n0ud.4F4.15@gated-at.bofh.it>
Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
>>The de facto standard for network devices is to use sockets.
>>For character and and block devices Unix/Linux uses the
>>open/poll/ioctl/read mechanisms.
>
> That sounds fine, but..
>
>>You could send your module a pid via proc and have it send a
>>signal to your application as a result of an event.
>
> ... please don't even entertain such sick ideas.
Especially when there is fcntl(F_{G,S}ET{OWN,SIG}) infrastructure in
place - kill_fasync().
next parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-21 16:56 UTC|newest]
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2003-08-21 16:56 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau [this message]
2003-08-21 17:23 ` Messaging between kernel modules and User Apps Richard B. Johnson
2003-08-21 15:05 Heater, Daniel (IndSys, GEFanuc, VMIC)
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2003-08-21 14:44 Pankaj Garg
2003-08-21 14:53 ` P
2003-08-21 15:14 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-08-21 15:59 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
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