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On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 03:28:52PM -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> 
> Writing something that uses pfil(9) might also be a lightweight way to
> do this.

Hmm, yes.  But the problem of communicating the table to the kernel
remains.  Is there a natural BSD way to have a block of memory mapped
both to kernel and user space?  With SVR4 Streams, I'd probably
use an ioctl to communicate.

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