Re: Send information from kernel to user

[Prasad <prasad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, [iso-8859-1] aki ra wrote:
>   My question is the following: is a buffer a good
> solution to do this? I've heard about things like
> kevent or relayfs. Are they a good solution if we want
> to communicate information from the kernel space to an
> application on specifics events like do_fork() or
> do_exit()?
> Best regards,
> Patrick.
	
	Hello Patrick !,

	I feel file would be a better option cause, fork and exit are the 
	syscalls which are executed every now & then with every single 
	command(with exception of shell builtins), storing information for 
	each of them into buffer can put on space restriction... 
-- 
regards
   -Prasad


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