Handling packets from kernel click to user process

[Brecht Vermeulen]

hmm, I think that's the whole problem, the linux kernel can't talk via
regular sockets or unix sockets with a user process (or am I wrong ?). 
There exists something as netlink sockets which do a similar thing.
(traffic control and iproute use this to communicate with the linux
kernel as far as I know).

Maybe that's indeed a solution, I'll look into it and we could use this
controlsocket/chattersocket communication protocol maybe.

regards,
Brecht

"Douglas S. J. De Couto" wrote:
> 
> perhaps the ControlSocket/ChatterSocket idea can be adapted or
> generalized for the kernel module?
> 
> i.e. let kernel click talk with user processes over a regular socket
> pair?  or over a unix socket?
> 
> d
> 
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> Douglas S. J. De Couto    decouto at lcs.mit.edu