Messages in this thread |  | | From | Tim Jansen <> | Subject | Re: User Space Emulation of Devices | Date | Thu, 13 Sep 2001 20:33:34 +0200 |
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On Thursday 13 September 2001 10:25, Phil Thompson wrote: > The best approach I found (for my purposes anyway) was the one used by the > ALSA OSS emulator (and strace as well?) that uses weak & strong symbols in > a pre-loaded shared library to intercept system calls to the device I > wanted to handle in user space. > I'd be surprised if this technique was suitable as a generic approach.
Unfortunately not for writing device drivers in user space because the library inherits the user id from the application - you have to be root to access hardware.
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