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Subject: Re: "Streaming" data from kernel to userland
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On Friday 19 January 2007 08:52, Ivan Voras wrote:
> I'm thinking of doing something which would require streaming large
> amounts of pretty much real-time data from kernel to a userland
> application (for further processing). The first thing that comes to my
> mind while thinking of this is sockets, so is there a sockets-like
> interface which could be used to transfer large amounts of constantly
> generated data from kernel to a userland application? Any advice on its
> usage and/or examples?

What's wrong with read()?

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