Re: threads in kernel

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Fri Dec 28 2001 - 08:13:24 EST

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On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Amber Palekar wrote:

> I want to do a communication module.I am using
> sock_create etc for the same purpose.I went thru some
> sample code.Everywhere threads are being used.Is it
> mandatory to create kernel threads while doing
> communication(or using socks) in the kernel ??

No. You can do asynchronous IO on sockets, using
poll(), select() and friends.

Rik

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