Hi, Thnx. I want to implement socket from the module. I won't be having any user process running to handle the descriptors coming from socket. Could you pl tell me how to handle the socket descriptor from the kernel module. Thanks, rakesh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Garzik" <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Rakesh Jagota" <j.rakesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx>; <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:30 AM Subject: Re: opening a file inside the kernel module > Rakesh Jagota wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am working in linux, i would like to know abt whether can I open a file > > inside the kernel module without using any application. If so how how the > > files_struct will be maintained. Does a kernel module has this struct? > > Don't do this. It's incompatible with namespaces. > > Instead, figure out some way to pass the file contents to the kernel module. > > Jeff > > > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
