"Streaming" data from kernel to userland

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Ivan Voras wrote:
> 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.

An entry in /dev is pretty traditional for this sort of thing :)

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