Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:59:20 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Hannes Mayer <debiandude@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Kernel module/IPC with userland: create and write to FIFO Message-ID: <200506172159.34920.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <bedc2e38050617050624a7ff2e@mail.gmail.com> References: <bedc2e38050617050624a7ff2e@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart9647713.85FnN0jHxR Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:36, Hannes Mayer wrote: > To cut a long story short, how can I open a FIFO in kernel space and > write to it, so I can open and read from it in userspace ? Why don't you create a device node? If you read and write to it, it acts like a FIFO. =2D-=20 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 --nextPart9647713.85FnN0jHxR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCssIu5ZPcIHs/zowRAkTqAJwNehCBLsPXFgBlm43DA69uSigrRgCeMjU5 +O6qNBqj6FiRucSBssCsWhk= =dQM3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart9647713.85FnN0jHxR--
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