> Hi,
> I'm trying to write a kernel module for
> my final year project. The kernel module needs
> to communicate with a user space program. The
> link needs to be two way. How do I go about this?
> I know you can use pipes, fifos, ipc, semaphores
> and shared memory between user processes,
> but are any of those available to the kernel?
Take a look at userfs:
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~mccormack/userfs.htmlhttp://www.goop.org/~jeremy/userfs/
They needed to do something similar.
Later,
Kenn
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