From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265044AbUGCEig (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jul 2004 00:38:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265047AbUGCEig (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jul 2004 00:38:36 -0400 Received: from bay16-f42.bay16.hotmail.com ([65.54.186.92]:12043 "EHLO hotmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265044AbUGCEif (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jul 2004 00:38:35 -0400 X-Originating-IP: [220.224.27.225] X-Originating-Email: [kartik_me@hotmail.com] From: "kartikey bhatt" To: jmorris@intercode.com.au, jmorris@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: socket association Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 10:08:34 +0530 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Jul 2004 04:38:34.0618 (UTC) FILETIME=[99A44DA0:01C460B7] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org sure there is one who will help in freebsd when a socket is created, the process structure of the process creating socket is passed as an argument to socreate function. is there any mechanism in linux kernel where we can associate the process creating socket with the socket. or we can fetch the process structure of the owning process given the socket or sock data structure. --kartikey _________________________________________________________________ Get Citibank Home Loan ! http://go.msnserver.com/IN/52043.asp At an unbelievably low interest rate.