From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 15 01:48:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA26455 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 01:48:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from innocence.interface-business.de (innocence.interface-business.de [193.101.57.202]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA26428 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 01:48:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ida.interface-business.de (ida.interface-business.de [193.101.57.203]) by innocence.interface-business.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA23571 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:48:39 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by ida.interface-business.de (8.8.5/8.7.3) with UUCP id KAA01893 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:49:17 +0200 (MEST) X-Authentication-Warning: ida.interface-business.de: j set sender to j@uriah.heep.sax.de using -f Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA00587; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 21:25:06 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970414212506.CK17865@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 21:25:06 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: file i/o from device driver? References: <199704140752.AAA00950@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199704140752.AAA00950@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Apr 14, 1997 00:52:23 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Amancio Hasty wrote: > 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? Sounds like a hack, but i think ktrace is doing something similar. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)