From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264422AbUEEKEr (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2004 06:04:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264427AbUEEKEr (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2004 06:04:47 -0400 Received: from kluizenaar.xs4all.nl ([213.84.184.247]:28994 "EHLO samwel.tk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264422AbUEEKEp (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2004 06:04:45 -0400 Message-ID: <4098BC2B.4080601@samwel.tk> Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 12:04:27 +0200 From: Bart Samwel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: nl, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Libor Vanek CC: "Richard B. Johnson" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Read from file fails References: <20040503000004.GA26707@Loki> <20040503150606.GB6411@Loki> <20040504011957.GA20676@Loki> <4097A94C.8060403@samwel.tk> <20040505095406.GC5767@Loki> In-Reply-To: <20040505095406.GC5767@Loki> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: bart@samwel.tk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on samwel.tk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Libor Vanek wrote: > OK - how can I "notify" userspace process? Signals are "weak" - I need > to send some data (filename etc.) to process. One solution is "on this > signal call this syscall and result of this syscall will be data you > need" - but I'd prefer to handle this in one "action". My first thoughts are to make it a blocking call. --Bart