prasanna wakhare (prasannawakhare@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Hi , > You can do that rather there is tutorial on how to do > socket programming from kernel space by Allesandro > rubini. > Somthing like this. > int error; > static int sockfd; > static struct completion startup = > [... snip ... ] > > pid=kernel_thread(sock_thread,&startup,0); > although abovs code snippet is for simple UDP data > transfer. > I dont think much difference for > tcp data transfer as well. If I remember, you could find in kernelnewbies archive a good example of how use socket... in kernel space. My remember tells me thats is something like a kernel thread with send datetime in broadcast mode within UDP patckets. Good search ... http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=kernelnewbies&m=107117544928518&w=2 So : Kernel Thread: http://www.scs.ch/~frey/linux/kernelthreads.html http://www.ar.linux.it/docs/ksys/ksys.html Networking in kernel: http://web.tiscali.it/bellucda/randomhacks/knetlog-stat.tgz After it is _your_ work. ~Christophe > --- jhoney jhoney <jhoney_joney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I am calling socket function (sock_*) from the > > kernel. In my work no application is being run, > > everything should be done from the kernel only. The > > actual application runs on other boad and > > communicates with the pci add-on card which runs > > linux and I have to make use of the TCP/IP stack.To > > test this I have written one server programe which > > is running from the kernel. > > > > I faced the following problem. when I connected more > > than two clients from other machine to the server > > progarm, it is getting hanged, I guess it is due to > > the accept() function. > > > > But in actual application program, the process is > > going to block until the accept returns. Since I do > > not have any application, how to simulate this. > > > > I had one plan of using kernel threads for accept. > > will it be appropriate? > > > > Can I create process from the kernel so that for > > each connection , process is going to block when > > accept is called . > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Regards > > Jhoney -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
