Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: User space device driver? | From | Karl Kleinpaste <> | Date | 16 Aug 1999 16:51:05 -0400 |
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Paul Ashton <lk@mailandnews.com> writes: > I'd like to write a device driver that passes all open/close/ioctls > to a user space program that can deliver arbitrary results. > 1. Has somebody already done this? > 2. What's the best user-kernel communication method?
You might want to look at "arla", the AFS clone, which uses a new pseudodevice, /dev/xfs0, by which to do the sort of communication you seem to indicate.
http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/arla/
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