Re: Help with netlink needed

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>]

Martin Hunt wrote:
> We really need to start getting the kernel <-> user space data transport
> code into the runtime library soon.  I have not done any work with this,
> so help would be greatly appreciated.

There are special filesystems available for this kind of work.  And
don't confuse this with netlink.  netlink is, I think, really the wrong
approach here.

I think the relayfs might do:

http://lwn.net/Articles/19391/

(Might not be the most recent description.)

But you really need to get kernel people's input, since they are the
once deciding about inclusion of such code.

I would not spend much time coming up with a brand-new mechanism of your
own.

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