On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 07:41:32 +0100 Martin Sustrik <sustrik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When implementing network protocols in user space, one has to implement > fake user-space file descriptors to represent the sockets for the protocol. > > While all the BSD socket API functionality for such descriptors may be faked as > well (myproto_send(), myproto_recv() etc.) this approach doesn't work for > polling (select, poll, epoll). For polling, real system-level file descriptor > is needed. That's a nice changelog but it omitted a critical thing: why do you think the kernel needs this feature? What's the value and use case for being able to poll these descriptors? So please update the changelog and then cc netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on the patch - the netdev people are probably best-situated to comment on the proposal. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
