Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 May 2004 12:19:02 +0200 | From | Libor Vanek <> | Subject | Re: Read from file fails |
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> Libor Vanek wrote: > >OK - how can I "notify" userspace process? Signals are "weak" - I need > > to send some data (filename etc.) to process. One solution is "on this > > signal call this syscall and result of this syscall will be data you > > need" - but I'd prefer to handle this in one "action". > My first thoughts are to make it a blocking call.
You mean like: - send signal to user-space process - wait until user-space process pick ups data (filename etc.), creates copy of file (or whatever) and calls another system call that he's finished - let kernel to continue syscall I blocked ?
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