On Sunday 29 February 2004 06:00, Jeff Dike wrote:
> I'm uncertain what the basic implementation should be. If it's a
> device (i.e. made with mknod), I'm not sure that's usable as a socket
> because I don't think there are accept/connect methods in the
> character device ops.
>
> If so, that means it needs to be a real socket, and the only room in
> there that I know of for plugging in random things is to add a new
> address family.
One thing I'm thinking of: Run a special daemon inside the UML that is
able to talk to the host. This daemon could talk to the host socket
directly, or, for obvious security reasons, it could talk to a peer
daemon on the host.
Comments welcomed.
Regards,
Jeroen mailto:jdizzl@xxxxxxxxx
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