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Network Programming in the Kernel – my Linux Journal Article
Ok, it’s official. Grab the latest copy of LJ to read our article about network programming in the kernel. Ravi and I explained in pretty good detail on how to create a network connection and read/write data from sockets in the kernel-mode. The sample code shows a basic FTP client that connects to a given IP address and downloads a file. The code can be downloaded from LJ FTP site.
There is, ofcourse always a debate on whether this should be done in the kernel, but I think there are situations, where you may want to do this. I have explained a few reasons in the kernelnewbies thread.
I think the article will be freely available online in LJ archives after a few months. Until then, you can devour the code at LJ download site, if you are not subscribed to LJ.
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