Re: User space device driver?

Karl Kleinpaste (karl@justresearch.com)
16 Aug 1999 16:51:05 -0400

Paul Ashton <lk@mailandnews.com> writes:
> I'd like to write a device driver that passes all open/close/ioctls
> to a user space program that can deliver arbitrary results.
> 1. Has somebody already done this?
> 2. What's the best user-kernel communication method?

You might want to look at "arla", the AFS clone, which uses a new
pseudodevice, /dev/xfs0, by which to do the sort of communication you
seem to indicate.

http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/arla/

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