Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 09:19:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Ramirez <marc.ramirez@bluecirclesoft.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Communications kernel -> userland Message-ID: <20030721091758.A47203@www.bluecirclesoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20030719.111654.28438110.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20030718150047.O61759@www.bluecirclesoft.com> <20030719.111654.28438110.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20030718150047.O61759@www.bluecirclesoft.com> > Marc Ramirez <marc.ramirez@bluecirclesoft.com> writes: > : I have a device driver that needs to make requests for data from a > : userland daemon. What's the preferred method for doing this in 4.8R and > : 5.1R? I'm assuming the answer is Unix-domain sockets... > > what's wrong with a simple read channel? Nothing except that this is my first real foray into non-trivial kernel programming. :) Marc. > why complicate things by > bringing sockets into it? > > Warner > > -- Marc Ramirez Blue Circle Software Corporation 513-688-1070 (main) 513-382-1270 (direct) www.bluecirclesoft.com
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