Re: User Space Emulation of Devices

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Wed Sep 12 2001 - 05:28:26 EST

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Hi!

> Without going into the gory details, I have a requirement for a device
> driver that does very little apart from pass on the open/close/read/write
> "requests" onto a user space application to implement and pass back to the
> driver.
>
> Does anything like this already exist?

Something like that which would also pass ioctl()s would be *very*
welcome.
Pavel

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