On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:59:09PM +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: | I have an userspace application running, which communicates to a kernel modules | using IOCTLs. Now, from time to time, the kernel needs to send a message back to the | application. Now one alternative would be that the app polls the kernel using IOCTLs | to see if any message is waiting. How can I avoid that and send a message directly | as in a callback or signal? There's a section 'Asynchronous Notification' in the LDD book. chyrag. -- Chirag Kantharia, symonds.net/~chyrag/ Linux scrooge 2.4.17 #1 Wed Jan 16 17:07:25 IST 2002 i686 unknown -- 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/