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From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
Subject: Re: Zero copy data transfer from Linuxulator to FreeBSD?
To: "Lundberg, Johannes" <johannes@brilliantservice.co.jp>,
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On 04/01/16 04:38, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a USB driver that runs in Linux mode and I want to transfer data to
> a native program for processing.
>
> I think that shared memory is not possible, what are other (zero copy)
> options?
>
> Thanks!
>

Can you explain a bit how the current program moves data around?

--HPS