On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 01:08:28PM +0200, Patrick Kilian wrote: > Hi, > > >> struct socket *guestsock; > >> error = sock_create(PF_UNIX, SOCK_DGRAM, 0, &guestsock); > > It looks OK to my eyes. > I found the error. I wanted to set the socket up too early in the boot > process, when the unix protocol is not yet registered with the > networking core. > > [snip] > > Especially try to get value of "error". > Jep, that one helped. Then the reply to your other post might be: You are trying to bind the socket too early in the mount process before anything is mounted on /tmp. Try to use the virtual namespace. You won't have that kind of problem (I am actualy using it in my project without slightest problems). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/