From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 14 04:08:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA04316 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 04:08:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hda.hda.com (hda-bicnet.bicnet.net [207.198.1.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA04311 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 04:08:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.hda.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA09057; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 06:55:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199704141055.GAA09057@hda.hda.com> Subject: Re: file i/o from device driver? In-Reply-To: <199704140752.AAA00950@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Apr 14, 97 00:52:23 am" To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 06:55:41 -0400 (EDT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > We have a couple of video capture drivers and was wondering what would it > take to pass a file handle to a driver so it can write the captured frames > to a file? IMHO: You don't want to do that. You want some way of synchronizing between a capturer and a logger. Maybe you can summarize the requirements on the data stream and the collection process? Peter -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936