Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 20 May 2001 13:17:30 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | handling network using filesystem [was Re: no ioctls for serial ports?] |
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Hi!
> > I thought about how to do networking without sockets, and it seems to > > me like this kind of modify syscall is needed, because network sockets > > connect to *two* different places (one local address and one > > remote). Sockets are really nasty :-(. > > Pavel, take a look at http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/3/ip
Looks nice, and it seems they are even able to run BSD socket emulation over that. Wow.
However, it is still mid-ugly:
Opening the clone file reserves a connection. The file descriptor returned from the open(2) will point to the control file, ctl, of the newly allocated connection. Reading ctl returns a text string representing the number of the connection. Connections may be used either to lis ten for incoming calls or to initiate calls to other machines.
So, you open "clone". That creates directory for you. You can get its number by reading from "clone" file.
That's pretty strange, agreed? Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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