Re: opening a file inside the kernel module

Rakesh Jagota
2004-09-29T05:56:30Z

Hi,
Thnx.

I want to implement socket from the module. I won't be having any user
process running to handle the descriptors coming from socket. Could you pl
tell me how to handle the socket descriptor from the kernel module.

Thanks,
rakesh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Garzik" <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: "Rakesh Jagota" <j.rakesh@gdatech.co.in>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>;
<kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: opening a file inside the kernel module

> Rakesh Jagota wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I am working in linux, i would like to know abt whether can I open a
file
> > inside the kernel module without using any application. If so how how
the
> > files_struct will be maintained. Does a kernel module has this struct?
>
> Don't do this. It's incompatible with namespaces.
>
> Instead, figure out some way to pass the file contents to the kernel
module.
>
> Jeff
>
>
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