From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: rolandd@cisco.com
Cc: viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] utterly bogus userland API in infinibad
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:03:49 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050916.170349.72543699.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52psr8k1qg.fsf@cisco.com>
From: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:54:31 -0700
> I have to confess I'm not familiar with how the kernel implements
> SCM_RIGHTS. Is it something we could use here?
Yes, you could open up an AF_UNIX socket with userspace
and pass the FDs over via SCM_RIGHTS.
Read the unix(7) man page, section ANCILLARY MESSAGES,
sub-section SCM_RIGHTS, to see how userspace can use
this stuff between processes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-17 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-16 18:11 Al Viro
2005-09-16 19:31 ` Roland Dreier
2005-09-16 20:37 ` Al Viro
2005-09-16 23:54 ` Roland Dreier
2005-09-17 0:03 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2005-09-17 0:08 ` Roland Dreier
2005-09-19 22:25 ` Roland Dreier
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