On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Sushanth Rai <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm planning to use kqueue/kevent mechanism to notify a user application > from the kernel. Basically I set up a file descriptor for read event from > the user application by calling kevent(). Now, I would like to wake-up the > process from within the kernel. The wake-up will happen due to one of the > internal events (not due to data being available to read). I have access to > the process structure and vnode corresponding to file descriptor. Is there > a mechanism available from the kernel to trigger a wakeup and clear the > kernel break notify message ? > > Thanks, > Sushanth > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > Hi. I'm not very experienced in this stuff, but you can try to look at how EVFILT_USER is handled. Specifically, take a look at what is going on when this filter is triggered from userland. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
