On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 07:41:32 +0100 Martin Sustrik <[email protected]> wrote:
> When implementing network protocols in user space, one has to implement > fake user-space file descriptors to represent the sockets for the protocol. > > While all the BSD socket API functionality for such descriptors may be faked > as > well (myproto_send(), myproto_recv() etc.) this approach doesn't work for > polling (select, poll, epoll). For polling, real system-level file descriptor > is needed. That's a nice changelog but it omitted a critical thing: why do you think the kernel needs this feature? What's the value and use case for being able to poll these descriptors? So please update the changelog and then cc [email protected] on the patch - the netdev people are probably best-situated to comment on the proposal. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
