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From: "Stuart MacDonald" <stua...@connecttech.com>
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Subject: RE: opening a file inside the kernel module
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:52:42 -0400
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From: linux-kernel-ow...@vger.kernel.org 
> I want to implement socket from the module. I won't be having any user
> process running to handle the descriptors coming from socket. 
> Could you pl
> tell me how to handle the socket descriptor from the kernel module.

Check out fs/smbfs/sock.c.

..Stu


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