Re: exception-handlers

From: Kasper Dupont (kasperd_at_daimi.au.dk)
Date: 10/03/04


Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 02:53:37 +0200

Måns Rullgård wrote:
>
> "Scott J. McCaughrin" <sjmccaug@bluestem.prairienet.org> writes:
>
> > Does Linux have a way to let me trap the real-time interrupt
> > for INT 4Ah (the user-definable alarm responding to INT 70h
> > RTC signals), so I can install my own handler in user-mode?
>
> Does writing a kernel module qualify as a way?

That is the only way. Unless you can use one that is already
written. (Could of course be compiled as part of the kernel
instead of as a seperate module). Isn't this what /dev/rtc is
for?

-- 
Kasper Dupont


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