On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 04:41:50PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote: > hello, > i wanted to know if there is any function which can from the pointer to > the sock structure or the pointer to the socket structure give me the > corressponding socket descriptor value. > Or even if it can give me the descriptor value from the pointer to the file > structure...that would be helpful too. > thanks, Hi. This is how the different data structures are related to each other: struct task_struct --> struct files_struct * --> struct file ** --> (current) (files) (fd) --> struct dentry --> struct inode --> struct socket --> struct sock (f_dentry) (d_inode) (u.socket_i) (sk) Mmmh, not too clear? It means: you can get a pointer to a struct files_struct through the 'files' field in the struct task_struct. From that and its field 'fd', you can a pointer to a struct file, and so on. HTH, Marco -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
