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- From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
- Subject: Re: psignal()
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.100921.23546@prl.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Paris Research Laboratory
- References: <1992Aug25.200550.1862@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 10:09:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.200550.1862@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, jhl@eecae.msu.edu (John Lawitzke) writes:
- > I am working on a project which consists of a SCO UNIX device driver and
- > a daemon. The device driver is monitoring for two events within the
- > hardware. When either event occurs, the device driver attempts to send
- > a signal to the daemon to inform it of the occurence.
- >
-
- Using signals to communicate events to processes from device drivers
- is just a bad idea. Signals are intended to kill processes, and are
- not an interprocess communication primitive, although they are often
- misued in this way.
-