Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 13:43:12 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UserLand Device Driver Thingys Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970920134235.342A-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199709201732.LAA24068@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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Are you saying that I can tunnel /dev/cuaa0 from another machine over to the local machine seamlessly. On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Nate Williams wrote: > > Why is it so impossible to have an arbitruary interrupt passed to a > > userland process, very much like a signal? > > It's not impossible, it's too darn slow crossing so many boundaries? > And, you *never* want an userland program to call cli. > > > It would be nice to be able to > > write device drivers that could open sockets and make data available on > > the network in an arbitruary way. > > See the 'tun' device, it does this for you already. > > > Nate >
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