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From: Phil Thompson <Phil.Thompson@pace.co.uk>
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Subject: User Space Emulation of Devices
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 09:25:08 +0100 
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Without going into the gory details, I have a requirement for a device
driver that does very little apart from pass on the open/close/read/write
"requests" onto a user space application to implement and pass back to the
driver.

Does anything like this already exist?

Thanks,
Phil