Hi... On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Himanshu Chauhan <chauhan.jpr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > > Suppose I have a circular buffer in a driver and there are 3 > threads/processes sleeping for the data in it. Now when data arrives in > circular buffer and I post a wakeup, what will happen? Only one of the > thread would be able to read from the buffer and other would be put to > sleep. So the other two will never get it. > > how can this be taken care of? simulate something like system V IPC? I mean (well never use it in kernel space), use pipe or shared memory and make it as a way to pass data between processes. regards, Mulyadi. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
