Re: [ILUG] Kernel module writing...

From: Dave Airlie (David.Airlie at domain ul.ie)
Date: Tue 08 Feb 2000 - 14:11:36 GMT

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kernel/user netlink is another method, I think it juses a dev file to
read/write from ..

Dave.

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Stephen Shirley wrote:

> 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?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
>
>

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