Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:42:39 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Subject: Re: "Streaming" data from kernel to userland Message-ID: <200701192142.50548.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <eoq12s$v64$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <eoorug$349$1@sea.gmane.org> <200701191148.14198.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <eoq12s$v64$1@sea.gmane.org>
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--nextPart14617562.mZyDHpG1AV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Ivan Voras wrote: > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Friday 19 January 2007 08:52, Ivan Voras wrote: > >> 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()? > > On a /dev/something? Nothing, I guess. I thought maybe there's something > more abstract (not visible in /dev), but it's not an issue. An entry in /dev is pretty traditional for this sort of thing :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart14617562.mZyDHpG1AV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFsKey5ZPcIHs/zowRAgG5AJ95X5evnPEX5LWPviEjDxcpKoXxlACdHdJ0 QvhHGgXLuo5XquKA9eAK3+c= =uAos -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart14617562.mZyDHpG1AV--
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