> > Is there a way to monitor IP-address changes without using polling?
yes - you can use netlink route sockets for that.. you setup a socket
and then listen on the "RTMGRP_IPV4_IFADDR" multicast group.. the kernel
will broadcast address changes on that socket for you to absorb. (v6 has
its own
On 13-04-08 21:55, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
(*) Per thread and a bit less in fact, since the current thread's
thread_struct lives at the bottom. The option furthermore also means
you get seperate interrupt stacks (also meaning that depending on
usage you might even end with more generally availab
regarding kernel stacks and interrupts:
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Rene Herman wrote:
> (*) Per thread and a bit less in fact, since the current thread's
> thread_struct lives at the bottom. The option furthermore also means
> you get seperate interrupt stacks (also meaning that depending on
> usage y
On 13-04-08 18:12, Peter Teoh wrote:
In "kernel hacking" when u do "make menuconfig", there is a 4kb for
stack stack thing - what is that? I have that compiled and the
current kernel is running with that enabled.
Not even going to go into your test since only $DEITY knows what you have
over
Hello all,
Please clarify the following quetions?
1. How many kernel threads will be created for a user space process consists
say 5 threads.
2. What is the differece btw linux kernel process and kernel thread. I read
in linux there is no differece btw a kernel process and kernel thread
And Plea
In "kernel hacking" when u do "make menuconfig", there is a 4kb for
stack stack thing - what is that? I have that compiled and the
current kernel is running with that enabled.
Then in my kernel module, I delcared a local variable of "char
[1024*1024]" which is 1Mb local stack variable, and t
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Patrick McManus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 23:10 +0800, Peter Teoh wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Patrick McManus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > no. without CONFIG_PREEMPT kernel code is not pre-emptable. Userspa
Hi
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Kris van Rens
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Is there a way to monitor IP-address changes without using polling? In
> other words; is there some kind of event mechanism in the Linux kernel
> with which I could implement this more elegantly?
>
> F
Hi there,
Is there a way to monitor IP-address changes without using polling? In
other words; is there some kind of event mechanism in the Linux kernel
with which I could implement this more elegantly?
>From user space I can use all kinds of scripting methods to monitor
the IP-address of a certai
