Re: "Streaming" data from kernel to userland

From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:42:39 +1030

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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