Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Kernel-user application/deamon communication | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 1997 21:06:20 +0100 (BST) |
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> I would use the kerneld API to start the application. The application
That assumes the user has kerneld and you dont want future porting to other machines. The more common and portable approach used for stuff like firmware reloads on NCR towers is to open the device and do a "wait until something occurs" ioctl() from a user program. Thats portable across all unix platforms and Linux with or without kerneld
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