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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
To: Rajeev Bector <rajeev_bector@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: new IPC mechanism ideas
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:57:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B4CF5E8.F9F9C429@transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010712005520.20851.qmail@web14402.mail.yahoo.com>

Rajeev Bector wrote:
> 
> If your driver is in the kernel,
> then you dont need that. All processes
> use system-calls (or ioctls) to send
> messages and when they do recv(),
> they get a pointer to a location
> (where they are mapped to via mmap)
> and they can read directly. In this
> scheme, you dont need any traditional
> UNIX IPC mechanism to work.
> 

And the point of this is?

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-12  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-12  0:10 new IPC mechanism ideas Rajeev Bector
2001-07-12  0:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-07-12  0:55   ` Rajeev Bector
2001-07-12  0:57     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-07-12  1:00       ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-12  1:02       ` Rajeev Bector
2001-07-12  1:07         ` H. Peter Anvin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-11  1:49 Rajeev Bector
2001-07-11  3:25 ` H. Peter Anvin

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