Hi, Thanks everyone for the comments. I found a detailed description on character devices in "Linux Device Driver, 2nd Ed". I think reading that would solve my problem. Regards, --- Naoya Maruyama <naoya@matsulab.is.titech.ac.jp> Tokyo Institute of Technology On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:52:03 +0900 Naoya Maruyama <naoya@matsulab.is.titech.ac.jp> 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 > > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
