* Ahmed A (ahmedcali@yahoo.com) wrote: > Hi, > > If a daemon is not listening on a port, how is it's > services used (accessed) - is it similar to a module > interface, i.e. register file_op structure? This completely depends on the service. You just need some way to communicate your service needs to the daemon. In userspace this is typically via sockets (AF_INET or AF_UNIX), named pipes, messsage queues, dropping files into spool directories, sending signals, etc. (bacially, you name it, and people have used it). In kernelspace, some kernel threads that you could consider as daemons are given work by simply adding a request directly to their request queue. thanks, -chris -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
