--- Marek Zawadzki <mzawadzk@cs.stevens-tech.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm done with my networking-stack project (transport protocol) and > I'm writing the docs now (borrrring). > I registered a function 'xxx_sendmsg' in the 'struct proto' to be > called > for 'sendmsg' operation on the socket and it workes fine. > > Since this is not my part, I don't really know what is the exact > chain of > calls when user calls send(). I need to know what happens from > send() called > by user to 'xxx_sendmsg'. Also, I need to know how this chain > changes when > the user calls 'write()' instead of 'send()'. > btw. this is a connection-oriented protocol. > If you want to trace calls through the kernel, cscope is a useful tool. See http://cscope.sourceforge.net. Harmony, --Christine __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
