From: Karim Yaghmour <karim@opersys.com>
To: lml@beonline.com.au
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel / Userspace Data Transfer
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:37:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <406799F3.1020508@opersys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1080528430.40678e2e9eb3a@www.beonline.com.au>
lml@beonline.com.au wrote:
> I have a set of counters in a Kernel module that i want to export to a
> userspace application. I originally decided to use a /proc entry and parse
> the output whenever the userspace application needed this data, however,
> i need more than the 4096 that is allowed in /proc and i'm not too keen
> on parsing large chunks of text anyway.
>
> What i would like to do is copy these slabs of text from the kernel to my
> userspace application (whenever the application requests it). I've seen the
> 'copy_to_user' function and it looks usefull, but have no idea where to start
> or how to use it :-/
>
> Can someone provide and example or point me in the right direction? Or is there
> a better place to ask this question?
relayfs has been designed with this type of requirements in mind:
http://www.opersys.com/relayfs/index.html
Karim
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-29 3:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-29 2:47 Kernel / Userspace Data Transfer lml
2004-03-29 3:37 ` Karim Yaghmour [this message]
2004-03-29 9:45 ` Pavel Mironchik
2004-03-29 9:09 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2004-03-29 14:29 ` Karim Yaghmour
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2004-03-29 4:57 Ross Dickson
2004-03-29 9:50 tigran
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