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June 1, 2014

Kernel Space - User Space Interfaces

This document looks at the numerous and interesting ways the Linux kernel 2.6 interacts with user space programs. We explain sockets, procfs (and similar virtual filesystems), creating new Linux system calls, as well as mundane file and memory handling.

More on userspace interfaces: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-kernel-memory-access/