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From: "Christian Tröster" <please.see.sig@gmx.de>
To: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Notifying a user space application
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 00:29:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200407010029.05546.please.see.sig@gmx.de> (raw)



Hi!

I'd like to notify a user space application if an interrupt occurs. I had no
problems to install a custom signal handler but I am not sure what's the best
way to notify the application.

My first idea was to send a signal to the application. But as far as I know
one has to know the pid to send the signal. So I'd need some mechanism to get
this pid - perhaps via a /proc entry. Is this a clean solution?

Another idea was to create a (blocking) character device and have the
application listening on that using select() or something like that. But this
seems to be a little bit bloated just for one signal. :)

Are there any other better ways I am not yet aware of. What do you think?

Bye, Christian

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             reply	other threads:[~2004-06-30 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-30 22:29 Christian Tröster [this message]
2004-07-01  6:20 ` Notifying a user space application Stefan Nickl
2004-07-01 12:33   ` Christian Tröster

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