Hi Krushnal,
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.sant...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi... > > I hope you don't mind if I cc my reply to kernelnewbies mailing list > too...so that you can get more response.. > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:03 PM, krushnaal pai<krisonea...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > sir, > > how can we send data from kernel space to user application....... > > AFAIK, most people use netlink socket. But since it seems that you > want alternative ways.... > > > also i had an article on that but they have used sockets ,i want one that > > doesnt use sockets > > if you mean "send data" as "user space read data from kernel space by > polling certain file descriptor", then you can create /proc or /sys or > debugfs entries, assign the file operation in it. Then when a user > space program read the entry, kernel simply send the data to the > reader. If you are just looking for alternatives, ioctl is the simplest one. Google for configfs, thats a good one too. > > -- > regards, > > Mulyadi Santosa > Freelance Linux trainer > blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecar...@nl.linux.org > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > >
