Re: Read from file fails

[Libor Vanek]

> 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.

You mean like:
- send signal to user-space process
- wait until user-space process pick ups data (filename etc.), creates copy of file (or whatever) and calls another system call that he's finished
- let kernel to continue syscall I blocked
?

Libor
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