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Re: Kernelspace to Userspace message passing

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:59:09PM +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
| I have an userspace application running, which communicates to a kernel modules
| using IOCTLs. Now, from time to time, the kernel needs to send a message back to the 
| application. Now one alternative would be that the app polls the kernel using IOCTLs
| to see if any message is waiting. How can I avoid that and send a message directly
| as in a callback or signal?

There's a section 'Asynchronous Notification' in the LDD book.

chyrag.
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Linux scrooge 2.4.17 #1 Wed Jan 16 17:07:25 IST 2002 i686 unknown

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