Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:57:12 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: new IPC mechanism ideas |
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Rajeev Bector wrote: > > If your driver is in the kernel, > then you dont need that. All processes > use system-calls (or ioctls) to send > messages and when they do recv(), > they get a pointer to a location > (where they are mapped to via mmap) > and they can read directly. In this > scheme, you dont need any traditional > UNIX IPC mechanism to work. >
And the point of this is?
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