You can probably get this to work, but I think, in general, it's A Bad Idea. What, exactly, are you trying to achieve? Regards, Justin On Sunday, November 25, 2001, at 10:22 , Sean Morrell wrote: Can named pipes, sockets and signals be used from within a driver, specifically an I/O Kit kernel audio driver? I have been told that disk I/O cannot be performed from within a driver? Is this true? If so, does this exclude the use of a disk based IPC such as a named pipe? Thanks, Sean _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel --- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * Institute for General Semantics | Men are from Earth. | Women are from Earth. | Deal with it. *--------------------------------------*-------------------------------*