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From: daniel.baluta@gmail.com (Daniel Baluta)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: query regarding kernel daemon
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 12:45:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimFnBhnad33SqqqOGykBf=hO3GkXQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTim6StdO_DFJC+L=baWXwm25fNm=XA@mail.gmail.com>

> A daemon sleeps in the background. User can enter a string through the proc
> interface. Whenever a string is entered, the daemon is woke. The daemon
> keeps a copy of the last entered string in a variable. Initially the
> variable is initialized to NULL. When the daemon wakes, it checks if the
> string entered is same as the previous one or a new string is entered. When
> the string is entered, in case the new or the old strings are NULL, or in
> case the entered string is same as the old string the daemon goes back to
> sleep (with the help of the function interruptible_sleep_on().

Don't use interruptible_sleep_on use wait_event* instead.

thanks,
Daniel.

[1] http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.38/include/linux/wait.h#L570

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-04  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-04  9:28 query regarding kernel daemon shubham sharma
2011-04-04  9:45 ` Daniel Baluta [this message]
2011-04-05  6:40 ` Mulyadi Santosa

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