Anders Persson wrote:
Darren J Moffat wrote:
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 ?
Yes, that is the idea.
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.
If this becomes a project on OpenSolaris, then maybe you could ask them
to participate.
I doubt they would be at all interested in implementing the sockets API
in kernel they would however be interested in using it as part of the DDI.
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Darren J Moffat
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