Re: character device interface to existing socket interface.

[Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>]

shankar krishnamurthy wrote:
> I am looking for help in writing character 
> device interface for existing socket interface.
> 
> Planning to write as kernel module. Kernel 2.4.20. 
> It will be a simple pass through to the socket. I mean
> it sits above socket and whatever user gives, the 
> driver passes it to socket and vice versa. In that
> sense its pass-through or a psuedo driver.
> 
> When user creates the device, he gives already 
> connected socket to device driver. Once device
> gets created, user closes the socket!
> 
> My hunch is that this looks so common that somebody
> would have already written or have some pointer to it.
> 
> Somebody may wonder why one needs this ...but for
> we can take it as *application specific* requirement.
> 
> Please let me know if you know anything about it.
> 
> 
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Something pretty close has already been done in the driver for 
/dev/inet/[tcp|udp|icmp|etc].
Neil

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