Hi, I wanted a mapping from the scok struct to the fd... I know the mapping from the task_struct to the sock... I just want the reverse. On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:33:00 -0700 Marco Cova <giardini@libero.it> wrote: MC> Hi. MC> MC> This is how the different data structures are related to each other: MC> MC> struct task_struct --> struct files_struct * --> struct file ** --> MC> (current) (files) (fd) MC> MC> --> struct dentry --> struct inode --> struct socket --> struct MC> sock MC> (f_dentry) (d_inode) (u.socket_i) (sk) MC> MC> MC> Mmmh, not too clear? It means: you can get a pointer to a struct MC> files_struct through the 'files' field in the struct task_struct. From MC> that and its field 'fd', you can a pointer to a struct file, and so on. MC> MC> MC> MC> HTH, MC> Marco MC> --- - Amit Want to know more about me? Follow this link-> http://amitshah.nav.to/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
