From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: upcalls from kernel code to user space daemons
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:08:29 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cavsld$bem$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1087236468.10367.27.camel@stevef95.austin.ibm.com
Followup to: <1087236468.10367.27.camel@stevef95.austin.ibm.com>
By author: Steve French <smfltc@us.ibm.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Is there a good terse example of an upcall from a kernel module (such as
> filesystem) to an optional user space helper daemon? The NFS RPC
> example seems more complicated than what I would like as does the
> captive ioctl approach which I see in a few places.
>
autofs does this by having the kernel write to the write-end of a
pipe, and have the userspace daemon read from the read end of the same
pipe.
The same thing can be done with sockets.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-18 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-14 18:07 upcalls from kernel code to user space daemons Steve French
2004-06-14 18:30 ` Chris Friesen
2004-06-14 21:40 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-06-14 21:57 ` Chris Friesen
2004-06-14 22:08 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-06-14 22:22 ` Chris Friesen
2004-06-14 22:54 ` Tim Hockin
2004-06-14 23:10 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-06-14 22:54 ` Steve French
2004-06-15 9:06 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-06-18 23:08 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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