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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>
References:  <eoorug$349$1@sea.gmane.org>

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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()?

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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