From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <001c01c4a5e9$114bf490$8200a8c0@RakeshJagota> From: "Rakesh Jagota" References: <4159E85A.6080806@ammasso.com> <006001c4a5df$ad605c40$8200a8c0@RakeshJagota> <415A4151.7060301@pobox.com> Subject: Re: opening a file inside the kernel module Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:26:30 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org List-ID: 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" To: "Rakesh Jagota" Cc: ; ; 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/ > > -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org