Re: Query - How to Send Signal to application from kernel module !

Sebastian Heidl (heidl@zib.de)
Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:21:23 +0100


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_

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