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Old 01-17-2005, 06:04 PM   #1
atticman
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Kernel module signalling


Hi,
I need to signal a user mode app from a kernel module in kernel 2.6.7. I'm confused on how to do this properly. I see two functions for this, "force_sig()" and "send_sig()". I'm passing the user mode PID via IOCTL to the driver.

For example sake, the user mode PID = 1234 and the signal I want to use is 50. So I will have a callback function in my user mode to hook signal 50.

1) Which is the best function to use, force_sig() or send_sig().
2) for the task_struct, what is the minimum I need to fill in?
3) Anyone have any good example code for this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

-John
 
  


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