signals handling in the kernel

[David Hawkins]

Hi Mirek,

>     I would like to send signals from the interrupt handler
> routine (in the kernel) to the user application (in user space).
> I have googled on that net and I have found that it could be done with the
> function: kill_proc_info.

Look in Rubini for the section regarding asynchronous
notification, Ch 6.

The callback to generate SIGIO is fasync.

Cheers
Dave