From: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: rolandd@cisco.com, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, torvalds@osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] utterly bogus userland API in infinibad
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:08:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52d5n8k13t.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050916.170349.72543699.davem@davemloft.net> (David S. Miller's message of "Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:03:49 -0700 (PDT)")
David> Read the unix(7) man page, section ANCILLARY MESSAGES,
David> sub-section SCM_RIGHTS, to see how userspace can use this
David> stuff between processes.
Yeah, I know about using SCM_RIGHTS between processes in userspace...
David> Yes, you could open up an AF_UNIX socket with userspace and
David> pass the FDs over via SCM_RIGHTS.
...but how does the kernel open an AF_UNIX socket with userspace?
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-17 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-16 18:11 [RFC] utterly bogus userland API in infinibad Al Viro
2005-09-16 19:31 ` Roland Dreier
2005-09-16 20:37 ` Al Viro
2005-09-16 23:54 ` Roland Dreier
2005-09-17 0:03 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-17 0:08 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2005-09-19 22:25 ` Roland Dreier
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