From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 23 08:02:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE4D816A4CE for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:02:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (transport.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C78643D31 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:02:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3577D1FF931; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:02:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id 23E871FF92F; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:02:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix, from userid 1060) id EE50F15662; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:02:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E358A15659; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:02:18 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:02:18 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net To: Gordon David In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS cksoft-s20020300-20031204bz on transport.cksoft.de cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: execute a user process in the kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:02:40 -0000 On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Gordon David wrote: > That's the point. I do not want the userland program to check /dev/fooctl > from time to time. I want the kernel to notify the userland program > instead. So how shall I do it? Maybe linker_load_file is a better way. man 2 kqueue ? -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT