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Re: moving data to and from user/kernel space

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:39:59AM -0500, Dan wrote:
| I am trying to pass data between a kenerl module and a userspace daemon.
| I am not having much luck finding out how.  so right now i have a proc
| file set up that the userspace program just reads and write to the proc
| file and the kernel module just reacts to those reads and writes.  i dont
| think this is the best way - there has to be a better way. Any insight
| would be great!  Thank you!

Lookup copy_from_user/copy_to_user. They are documented in Rubini's
Linux Device Drivers book, chapter 3, page 79.

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