Re: sock_create vs socket_create_kern

[Alan Menegotto <macnish@xxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Baluta escreveu:
> Hello ,
>
> What is the difference between those two functions?
>
> I've looked through the source code and i found this:
>
>
>  int sock_create(int family, int type, int protocol, struct socket **res)
> {
>          return __sock_create(current->nsproxy->net_ns, family, type,
> protocol, res, 0);
> }
>
> int sock_create_kern(int family, int type, int protocol, struct socket **res)
> {
>          return __sock_create(&init_net, family, type, protocol, res, 1);
> }
>
> Any ideas?
>
> thanks,
> Daniel.
>
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>   
It seems that sock_create is used on the socket implementation itself. 
sock_create_kern is used in socket family implementations (like inet 
socket for instance - see net/ipv4/af_inet.c, function inet_ct_sock_create).


Best Regards

Alan Menegotto


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