In article <OF791BBBC5.E3FCBEEE-ON87256A18.005BA3B7@LocalDomain> you write:
>With ioctl, I can easily match a response of any kind to a request. I can
>even return an English text message if I want to be friendly.
But ioctl requires allocation of numbers. Ugly and hard to scale.
Alex Viro's idea is cleaner, but still requires a fair amount of
coding even for simple interfaces.
Why not have a kernel thread and use standard RPC techniques like
sockets? Then you'd not have to invent anything unimportant like
Yet Another IPC Technique.
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