From: Thomas Hofer <th@monochrom.at>
To: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Changes in vm_operations_struct 2.2.x => 2.4.x
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:24:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01080914135800.01033@earth> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B72357E.1BF85B4B@scs.ch>
Martin Maletinsky wrote (Donnerstag, 9. August 2001 09:02):
> My module allocates a block of memory, and exports that block to user
> space processes, by registering as a character device and
> implementing a mmap file operation, so that user space processes can
> map that memory block into their virtual address space by calling
> mmap().
Would it be possible to do this with shared memory (shmget/shmat)?
What's the advantage of making a device and mmaping it? Sounds
more complicated. (I did only user-space programs as yet, so forgive me
my naivity)
Thomas.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-09 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-03 8:01 Martin Maletinsky
2001-08-08 22:49 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-08-09 7:02 ` Martin Maletinsky
2001-08-09 12:24 ` Thomas Hofer [this message]
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