Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Signalling from kernel | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:50:32 -0700 (PDT) |
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> > is there a simple way to call an user-level funktion from kernel space > or at least let the process notify that a driver completed a task. >
I think this is a job for SIGIO: use SIGIO to notify the process something just happened and have the process read from a character device to find out just exactly what the SIGIO was about.
That is, of course, assuming the process can't simply select() on a suitable device until something happens.
-hpa
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