Communications kernel -> userland

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20030718150047.O61759 at www.bluecirclesoft.com>
            Marc Ramirez <marc.ramirez at bluecirclesoft.com> writes:
: I have a device driver that needs to make requests for data from a
: userland daemon.  What's the preferred method for doing this in 4.8R and
: 5.1R?  I'm assuming the answer is Unix-domain sockets...

what's wrong with a simple read channel?  why complicate things by
bringing sockets into it?

Warner