sosend() and mbuf

Maslan maslanbsd at gmail.com
Tue Aug 4 09:59:04 UTC 2009


yes kio http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/misc/kernio/
However, It's outdated.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Ed Schouten<ed at 80386.nl> wrote:
> * Maslan <maslanbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Is it possible to call kern_open() from within a kernel thread anyway?
>> I think yes, It worked on the parent thread before creating a new kthread.
>> See OpenKETA source, its using the same approach.
>> > kern_open() depends on a file descriptor table, right?
>> Yes, it returns a fd in the curthread->td_retval[0], which i should
>> use within the same thread to deal with this file.
>
> Didn't someone (Jeff Roberson?) develop some nice in-kernel API for
> accessing files some years ago? Why not use that?
>
> --
>  Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
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