On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 10:39:10AM +0530, J Pradeep wrote: | > Thanx for the reply. But, is there a way to invoke userland process | > without a filesystem? | Most OS's provide a filesystem interface to serial port. For eg.: LPT0/1 | in dos. I found /dev/lp0 /dev/lp1 /dev/lp2 in my devices directory. They | might be a possible interface you need. Can someone confirm on this. Dear Pradeep, You're missing the point. I *don't* have a filesystem. chyrag. -- Chirag Kantharia, symonds.net/~chyrag/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/