Hello all!
Today I've played around with NBD (Network Block Disk), and
qemu-nbd (a NBD client that exports QEMU disks as NBD's).
My problem is the following: both NBD kernel module and qemu-nbd
implementation expect to use a socket in order to communicate.
This means that in order to securely tunnel the connection over
SSH (OpenSSH), I need an intermediary process that creates a socket
and forwards all input / output between this socket and stdin / stdout
(which are in fact pipes received from OpenSSH).
My question is: can I somehow make the pair of stdin / stdout seem
as a socket to the Linux syscalls (read and write)? (I would have to
make stdin / stdout pair look like a single file descriptor.) (This
would eliminate the intermediate process that just pipes data, and
thus reduce the overhead.)
Just to be clear: I know how to trick an application to have it's
stdin and stdout be an opened socket (by using dup syscall). But in
this case I need to trick the Linux kernel into thinking that stdin /
stdout pair is a socket (or a single file descriptor).
Thank you,
Ciprian Craciun.
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