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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.

  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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