Re: Mapping a piece of one process' addrspace to another?

[Abramo Bagnara <abramo@alsa-project.org>]

Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Abramo Bagnara wrote:
> 
> > Alexander Viro wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Jeremy Elson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Right now, my code looks something like this: (it might make more
> > > > sense if you know that I've written a framework for writing user-space
> > > > device drivers... I'm going to be releasing it soon, hopefully after I
> > > > resolve this performance problem.  Or maybe before, if it's hard.)
> > >
> > > Ugh. Why not make that a named pipe and use zerocopy stuff for pipes?
> > > I.e. why bother with making it look like a character device rather than
> > > a FIFO?
> >
> > What about ioctl? Device drivers sometimes need it ;-)
> 
> No, they don't. OOB data is equivalent to data on parallel channel.

Al, you're perfectly right in principle (although last time I've checked
pipe and unix socket did not support OOB data. Is this changed
recently?).

But you're forgetting that we need to cope with non collaborative
applications (that *use* ioctl).

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