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Sharing buffers between devices

Sharing buffers between devices

Posted Aug 18, 2011 14:11 UTC (Thu) by justincormack (subscriber, #70439)
In reply to: Sharing buffers between devices by cladisch
Parent article: Sharing buffers between devices

No, pipes are supposed to be a general kernel memory (ring) buffer in effect now, which as it happens you can implement a Unix pipe on top of: https://lwn.net/Articles/119682/


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