Fwd: storing the logs

Lutz linsenhof at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 8 17:59:10 EST 2011


Am Montag, den 07.02.2011, 00:16 +0530 schrieb mohit verma:

> i create a socket to communicate to the user space app to listen to
> and responsible for loggin ... via   my_sock=netlink_creat_sock()
> i create my own  logging message format to send it via netlink
> interface.
> then  how can i let my module know  which process to bind it to? i
> mean to bind my socket to any user space application i need the pid of
> that one 

haven't tried netlink so maybe this won't be much help.
isn't it possible to just bind to somewhere on the network using

int kbind(ksocket_t socket, struct sockaddr *address, int address_len)

from http://ksocket.sourceforge.net/
?

if i'm not mistaken you won't need any pid

good luck,

Lutz







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