Re: Kernel-User shared buffer

[Karim Yaghmour]

john moser wrote:
> I'm trying to create a shared buffer for realtime communication
> between the kernel and a userspace application.  All allocation
> is done for the userspace task in the kernel, and the kernel is
> to write to the ram from within syscalls made by other
> processes.

I'm not sure what you mean by "realtime", but have a look at relayfs:
http://www.opersys.com/relayfs/index.html

Karim
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