Re: Messaging between kernel modules and User Apps

[Ihar 'Philips' Filipau]

Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> > The de facto standard for network devices is to use sockets.
> > For character and and block devices Unix/Linux uses the
> > open/poll/ioctl/read mechanisms.
>
> That sounds fine, but..
>
> > You could send your module a pid via proc and have it send a
> > signal to your application as a result of an event.
>
> ... please don't even entertain such sick ideas.

  Especially when there is fcntl(F_{G,S}ET{OWN,SIG}) infrastructure in 
place - kill_fasync().

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