Re: Socket hack question.

2001-04-18 Thread Joel Eriksson
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:31:55PM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: > > post. :-) But I thought sendfile() could only be used for sending data > > from a "regular" file descriptor to another file- or socket descriptor..? > > he said the syscall (ie, interface) already existed, > not that it was implemente

Re: Socket hack question.

2001-04-18 Thread Joel Eriksson
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:31:00PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:28:52AM +0200, Joel Eriksson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am a kernel hacking newbie and am struggling to understand the > > networking subsystem. I would like to be able to add a systemcall, > > preferably as

Re: Socket hack question.

2001-04-18 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:28:52AM +0200, Joel Eriksson wrote: > Hello, > > I am a kernel hacking newbie and am struggling to understand the > networking subsystem. I would like to be able to add a systemcall, > preferably asynchronous, that connects a socket with a filedescriptor > (proxy(srcsd,