Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:48:05 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Subject: Re: "Streaming" data from kernel to userland Message-ID: <200701191148.14198.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <eoorug$349$1@sea.gmane.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Friday 19 January 2007 08:52, Ivan Voras wrote: > I'm thinking of doing something which would require streaming large > amounts of pretty much real-time data from kernel to a userland > application (for further processing). The first thing that comes to my > mind while thinking of this is sockets, so is there a sockets-like > interface which could be used to transfer large amounts of constantly > generated data from kernel to a userland application? Any advice on its > usage and/or examples? What's wrong with read()? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFsBxW5ZPcIHs/zowRAsZeAJ4jG4alv5Gc37yJEtHXBA7kd8t9sQCglfVO YzWVLLFdgrMrWaWrmJTmHxc= =Jo6W -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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