On 29/07/2013 08:31, varanasi sainath wrote:
Hello,
I am writing a kernel module in which I am trying to connect to a UNIX
socket
(UNIX domain sockets use the file system as their address name space).
Kernel module (loadable) acts as a client and User mode program acts as
server,
I have loaded the module using kldload and communication between
user and kernel module works fine,
when I try to load the kernel module from loader.conf -
auto load the kernel module at boot up leads to kernel panic
as the file system is not ready and kern_connect fails.
How to notify kernel module that File system is ready?
(any specific event flags)
Is there any specific location for Unix domain socket files?
(currently created it under /root/soc/socket )
Using "MODULE_DEPEND" Can I make the module dependent of file system?
I shall resist the obvious "why" question.
I'm assuming you're talking about a fifo here (aka named pipe, and
occasionally called UNIX socket) rather than the BSD network socket
interface. IIRC since 4.3BSD fifos have been implemented using sockets
internally anyway.
Where to put it? I tend to go for /tmp but somewhere in /var might make
more sense for something that's always supposed to be there.
I don't know how to tell when the FS is ready but it will be when init
runs, so you might like to try the sysctl variables. Knowing that init
is always PID 1, the value of kern.lastpid should give a hint. There may
be an official way of doing this properly.
You could always load the module from rc.local instead.
Regards, Frank.
P.S. You do know that an fd only relates to the kernel thread it's
currently running in?
_______________________________________________
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
