Communication between kernel and userspace via local socket

Ed Schouten ed at 80386.nl
Wed Nov 16 08:55:10 UTC 2011


* Maxim Ignatenko <gelraen.ua at gmail.com>, 20111115 21:18:
> I'm currently inventing the wheel^W^W^Wwriting a firewall from scratch and 
> looking for most convenient way to establish communication between userspace 
> processes and kernel part. Communication pattern best fits to listening 
> PF_LOCAL socket opened from kernel and userspace processes connecting to it. 

What's wrong with a character device?

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 834 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/attachments/20111116/0ee1e098/attachment.pgp


More information about the freebsd-hackers mailing list