Hi James,
There have already been several threads on networking-discuss where
people are asking how to use sockets within their driver/module. It
seems that people are surprised by the fact that no interface currently
exists, especially since several other open-source operating
systems[1][2] do provide such interfaces.
The motivation for creating an OpenSolaris project is to make it easy
for people who are interested in using kernel sockets to participate in
the design process and to obtain and to work on the code.
Thanks,
Anders
[1] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7660
[2]
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-December/018844.html
James C. McPherson wrote:
Anders Persson wrote:
Everyone,
There is currently no interface for using sockets within the kernel.
However, there is a need for kernel sockets and the currently
solution used by developers is to use private interfaces.
So I propose to start a new project within the Networking community
that would develop a well defined interface for using kernel sockets.
Hi Anders,
I don't doubt that there is a need for in-kernel sockets,
however I don't see any justification from you about why
we should have a project created to work on them.
Would you provide some explanation (and urls) to back up
your proposal please?
cheers,
James C. McPherson
--
Solaris kernel software engineer
Sun Microsystems
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