Robert Elz <[email protected]> wrote: > To answer both you and the Mouse - the difference is that a user process > actually writing data consumes measurable resources, and thus is easy to > find and kill. When everything happens in the kernel, spotting which > arrantly idle user process is making it happen is not at all easy.
We could fork a kernel thread that would go to userspace to do the work with a write() loop, with appropriate credentials. Does it makes sense? -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz [email protected]
