Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Jul 1998 15:48:45 -0400 | From | Jim Nance <> | Subject | Re: Kernel-bound applications? |
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On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 11:45:36AM -0700, Kirk Petersen wrote: > > - direct copying from writing process to reading process. This would > > require you to read the page tables of the reading process so you can > > copy_from_user() to the physical pages of the reading process. You'll > > need to pin down the reading process pages > > I was thinking about this method. For blocking reads and writes, it seems > like it would work great. But since X uses non-blocking i/o, I didn't > really look into it. Anyone want to comment further on the feasibility?
Do X clients typically use non-blocking I/O? I suspect that only the server needs non-blocking I/O. If the clients block, this should be enough to make it possible for you to do what you want (I think :-)
Jim
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