Re: how can a user process interact with kernel space processes?

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Hi,
There are several ways for communication between user-space and kernel
space.

I like to have a  psuedo driver which provides interface between the
user space and kernel space.
Regards,
Ravi.

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 03:52, Naoya Maruyama wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to ask you who know any mechanisms of communication between
> user-space and kernel-space processes. 
> 
> I think there are two possible ways to do such a job. One is to use the
> proc file system, and the other is to create a system call that gets
> messages from user-space processes and sends them to kernel-space
> processes.
> 
> How do you think of these approaches? Do they seem to be strange or
> nonstandard ways? I'd be very appreciate if anyone tell me about
> alternative ways that are more standard and/or better than them.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> ---
> Naoya Maruyama <naoya@matsulab.is.titech.ac.jp>
> Tokyo Institute of Technology
> 
> 
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