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Subject: Is there any way to avoid copy between the kernel and userland
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Hi
I am looking for any FreeBSD facility that will allow a userland process to
pass data to the kernel without doing a copyin or copyout e.g. using a
shared data structure (queue? ) for example? Any pointers will be useful
Thanks