Anders Persson wrote:
Everyone,
There is currently no interface for using sockets within the kernel.
However, there is a need for kernel sockets and the currently solution
used by developers is to use private interfaces.
So I propose to start a new project within the Networking community that
would develop a well defined interface for using kernel sockets.
Is the plan that these new interfaces become part of the DDI so that any
driver/module writer can use them ?
If so I think this is a great idea, I have spoken to a few vendors in
the past that have a need for this. One vendor wanted (may still do)
write a plugin for the crypto framework that uses a ipsec (or ssl)
protected connection to a remote machine where the real hardware
keystore actually exists, the workaround to this is to use a userland
daemon to setup a file descriptor the kernel can use, but they wanted to
do all this in kernel.
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Darren J Moffat
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