From: Sebastian Heidl <heidl@zib.de>
To: Akshat Kapoor <akshat@mercurykr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Query - How to Send Signal to application from kernel module !
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:21:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011120092123.R5446@csr-pc1.zib.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001401c17192$ebf8ce80$150d85a5@mercurykr.com>
In-Reply-To: <001401c17192$ebf8ce80$150d85a5@mercurykr.com>; from akshat@mercurykr.com on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 12:43:52PM +0530
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 12:43:52PM +0530, Akshat Kapoor wrote:
> Is it possible in Linux to send a signal to an application from a driver ?
> I've done this in Windows NT but Idont know how to do it in Linux. I
have a look at kernel/signal.c
I think you can use all the send_* force_* and kill_* functions but I'm not sure
with this. Currently I used kill_proc_info and force_sig and they worked just
fine.
HTH,
_sh_
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-20 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-20 7:13 Akshat Kapoor
2001-11-20 8:05 ` Sameer K S
2001-11-20 8:21 ` Sebastian Heidl [this message]
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