From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Jody Pearson <J.Pearson@cern.ch>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Documentation / code sample wanted.
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 23:10:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030603041054.GM23715@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306021939490.31408-100000@lxplus077.cern.ch>
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:40:52PM +0200, Jody Pearson wrote:
> I am looking for some source code or a document which outlines how to open
> a TCP connection within kernel space.
Take a look at nbd or Cisco's iSCSI driver.
> For more information, I basically want to emulate a userland
> gethostbyname() in kernel space.
That gets ugly quickly. There are a lot of options and complexity
needed to handle even the simplest name resolution robustly. It almost
certainly makes more sense to do this in userspace and pass the result
down to the kernel.
--
Matt Mackall : http://www.selenic.com : of or relating to the moon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-03 3:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-02 17:40 Documentation / code sample wanted Jody Pearson
2003-06-02 18:18 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-06-03 10:38 ` Jody Pearson
2003-06-02 19:40 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-03 4:10 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
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