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To: Rajeev Bector <rajeev_bector@yahoo.com>
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Rajeev Bector wrote:
> 
> If your driver is in the kernel,
> then you dont need that. All processes
> use system-calls (or ioctls) to send
> messages and when they do recv(),
> they get a pointer to a location
> (where they are mapped to via mmap)
> and they can read directly. In this
> scheme, you dont need any traditional
> UNIX IPC mechanism to work.
> 

And the point of this is?

	-hpa
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