Re: Understanding the sockets system

["Mulyadi Santosa" <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rafael



On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Rafael C. de Almeida
<almeidaraf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I'm trying to understand how the bytes I get from recv(2) comes
>  through the nic to the sockets interface. I tried following it from
>  sys_recv (net/socket.c) to the driver functions being used. But I got
>  stuck on:
>
>         err = security_socket_recvmsg(sock, msg, size, flags);

I suggest to redo your tracing using User Mode Linux. Attach gdb to
UML, put breakpoint(s) and then do backtracing when you hit the target
function. I find it as the easiest way to do tracing.

regards,

Mulyadi.

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