sébastien person wrote:
>
> Le Thu, 3 May 2001 08:46:05 -0400 (EDT)
> Mark Hahn <hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca> à écrit :
>
> > > I think that use of pipe isn't preconised because I must fork process
> > > to use pipe,
> >
> > I guess you mean "because a user-level process would block on the pipe".
> > and you don't want to block. the alternative is to use a signal.
>
> yes but with a signal I am able to share data beetween user space and kernel
> space ? I must also use copy_to_user ?
You will not get any data with the signal but your user-level application
can use an ioctl when it receives this signal and get the data.
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