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.Dd November 21, 2007 .Dt PUTTER 9 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm putter .Nd Pass-to-Userspace Transporter .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm subsystem is used for request-response handling of userspace components. It currently provides routines for associating a file descriptor with a subsystem data structure instance and I/O routines. Users of the facility must fill out the callbacks in .Va struct putter_ops to integrate with .Nm . .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr pud 4 , .Xr puffs 4 .Sh BUGS Under construction. Interfaces may and will change.