Re: NEWBEE "reverse ioctl" or someting like

From: sébastien person (sebastien.person@sycomore.fr)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 08:57:46 EST


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 ?

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