Kernel module/IPC with userland: create and write to FIFO

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:36, Hannes Mayer wrote:
> To cut a long story short, how can I open a FIFO in kernel space and
> write to it, so I can open and read from it in userspace ?

Why don't you create a device node?

If you read and write to it, it acts like a FIFO.

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