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Date:      Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:42:39 +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:  <200701192142.50548.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <eoq12s$v64$1@sea.gmane.org>
References:  <eoorug$349$1@sea.gmane.org> <200701191148.14198.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <eoq12s$v64$1@sea.gmane.org>

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On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > On Friday 19 January 2007 08:52, Ivan Voras wrote:
> >> 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()?
>
> On a /dev/something? Nothing, I guess. I thought maybe there's something
> more abstract (not visible in /dev), but it's not an issue.

An entry in /dev is pretty traditional for this sort of thing :)

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