[openbeosnetteam] Re: Integration Q's

From: "David Reid" <dreid@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> > Yes, but not R5 sockets.
> > We'd need to have a device that maps all calls, e.g. /dev/socket -
> > every time an application calls socket(), that fake device would create
> > a new sockets, but it would have a real fd then.
> > We'd need port communication between the device and the net_server,
> > then.
>
> Taking a leap here, is this something close to what you were referring?
>
> - socket module creates/manages the /dev/[net/]socket device when dev_init
> is called.
> - when the userland app links against libsocket they basically get a
routine
> that opens /dev/[net]/socket and get a real fd from hte system which
thinks
> it's just a file
> - because it's a file system entry presumably we can tell the system which
> functions to call for read/write and ioctl?
>
> Does that make sense? Is this something like what you were thinking Axel?
> If it is is there any code to look at out there that does similar things?

I am not really sure how fds are managed (i.e. how they are
created/destroyed), but I guess that if we are really able to associate an
fd with a socket call (being it via /dev/socket or whatever) the
implementation of everything else should be straight forward.

There is only one caveat I can think of... The select() call. If I am not
mistaken, select() does not work on file descriptors (or is it sockets) in
BeOS R5. I am not sure if we can change that by rolling out our own select()
implementation... Where is it implemented in BeOS? libroot.so?

-Bruno

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