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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] Sharing Semaphores in Kernel and User Space
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To: Jonathan Haws <Jonathan.Haws@domain.hid>
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Jonathan Haws wrote:
> All,
> 
> I am writing a driver that needs to wake up a user space thread on a
> hardware interrupt.  I am reading about the Xenomai APIs semaphores
> and want to know if I create a semaphore in my kernel module with a
> given name using rt_sem_create, can I call rt_sem_bind in user space
> to bind to that same semaphore?
> 
> I am sure hoping the answer is yes!

The answer is yes, but...
this programming model is deprecated. You should be implementing a
driver using the RTDM API, as you would do with Linux.

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					    Gilles.