Hi, On Tue, 16 May 2023 14:08:47 -0300 Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We have basic networking support in the `rust` branch. In fact, we > also have support for async networking in there as well. For example, > the 9p server uses it. > > At the moment we're prioritizing upstreaming the pieces for which we > have projects waiting. Do you have an _actual_ user in mind for this? I've implemented in-kernel TLS 1.3 handshake on the top of this. https://github.com/fujita/rust-tls The in-kernel TLS handshake feature is controversial. Proposals were rejected in the past. So I like to know the opinions of subsystem maintainers early, implementing in-kernel security-relevant code in Rust could change the situation. The requirement for networking is simple, read/write with a vector and setsockopt. So I submitted minimum abstractions. > In any case, let's please start with that instead of a brand-new > reimplementation. Sure, if netdev maintainers could merge Rust abstractions for networking soon, I'll rework on this. But I don't think there is much overlap between this and rust branch. Even if we could have abstractions specific for TCP like TcpListener and TcpStream, we still need thin abstractions for socket because there are several use-cases of non IP sockets, I think. Thanks,
