"Streaming" data from kernel to userland

Ivan Voras ivoras at fer.hr
Fri Jan 19 08:56:18 UTC 2007


Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Friday 19 January 2007 08:52, Ivan Voras wrote:

>> mind while thinking of this is sockets, so is there a sockets-like
>> interface which could be used to transfer large amounts of constantly
>> generated data from kernel to a userland application? Any advice on its
>> usage and/or examples?
> 
> What's wrong with read()?

On a /dev/something? Nothing, I guess. I thought maybe there's something
more abstract (not visible in /dev), but it's not an issue.



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