From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262590AbULPCMS (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2004 21:12:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262603AbULPCIp (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2004 21:08:45 -0500 Received: from orion.netbank.com.br ([200.203.199.90]:11278 "EHLO orion.netbank.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262601AbULPCES (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2004 21:04:18 -0500 Message-ID: <41C0DF8B.2020007@conectiva.com.br> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:06:19 -0200 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Organization: Conectiva S.A. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Richard Moser Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Sockets from kernel space? References: <41C0E720.8050201@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <41C0E720.8050201@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org John Richard Moser wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Is it possible to create socket connections (AF_UNIX for example) from > the kernel to local user processes that are listen()ing? > > A good link to somewhere to help with this would be nice. Please send networking development related messages to netdev@oss.sgi.com, there are several networking hackers that don't even subscribe lkml. Having said that, look at the svc_makesock and svc_create_socket functions in net/sunrpc/svcsock.c as a starting point. - Arnaldo