Re: Simple Kernel-User Event Interface (Was: RE: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release)

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On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 09:16:02PM -0700, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote:
>
> The idea is you queue from the kernel a message and the user space
> reads it -entirely, no half things-, starting with a header (unsigned
> long size) and then the actual bytes. If the user provides a buffer

It would be better to use an ASCII interface using \n as event
separator. That's what I like about hotplug: it can be scripted.

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Frank
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