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From: "Jake" <pacha@gmx.at>
To: 'Girish Kale' <girish.kale@nevisnetworks.com>
Cc: 'linux-newbie' <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Question on character device
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:18:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <005601c36d6f$31948400$f400a8c0@Mary> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36993D449C7FA647BF43568E0793AB3E061DB8@nevis_pune_xchg.pune.nevisnetworks.com>

> When I want to write to a character device driver from the 
> user space, is there any limitation on the size of data that 
> can be transferred. I want to write approx 64M of data to the 
> character device driver from the user space.

I´m not absolutely sure, but I believe there are no limitations on how
much data can be sent to a character device. If you store all the data,
the only limit will be your memory. If you write more data than there is
free memory, you´re system will start swapping, get really sloppy and
will eventually die.

		Jake

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      reply	other threads:[~2003-08-28 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-27 12:54 Question on character device Girish Kale
2003-08-28 14:18 ` Jake [this message]

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