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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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