You may be interested in learning netlink sockets. Check following link http://qos.ittc.ukans.edu/netlink/html/ hth, -abhijit Kiss The Blade wrote : >Hi guys, > >Does anybody have examples of sending data to usermode applications from a >kernel module via tcp/ip? Something like kernel sockets, i'm just >beggining my study on the Linux kernel in particular and don't know if >such thing exists. I have a daemon listening on a tcp port and is waiting >for a kernel module to send some data to this port. Is there any way to do >it in kernel space? Additional examples using unix domain sockets would be >greatly appreciated. > >thiago > > -- bitwise byte foolish -- -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/