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Date:      Tue, 12 Jun 2001 15:14:17 -0400
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To:        Anjali Kulkarni <anjali@indranetworks.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: User-Level upcalls
Message-ID:  <20010612151416.Q1832@superconductor.rush.net>
In-Reply-To: <03e201c0f322$e52e2c60$0a64a8c0@indranetworks.com>; from anjali@indranetworks.com on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 03:04:34PM %2B0530
References:  <03e201c0f322$e52e2c60$0a64a8c0@indranetworks.com>

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* Anjali Kulkarni <anjali@indranetworks.com> [010612 05:54] wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Does any one know how to perform user-level upcalls from kernel
> TCP/IP stack? If I wanted to get an upcall every time a data packet
> arrived on a socket, how can it be done? Can I use signal handlers
> for this?

Please wrap lines at 70 characters.

Yes, you can erquest that a signal (SIGIO) be sent to you each time
an event occurs, take a look at fcntl(2) manpage.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.

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