Re: opened RAW sockets

Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 14:55:55 +0200

MK> Helo, one question. Why some raw sockets are opened without any processes?
MK> On 2.0.x I had opened 1 socket (type 1), on 2.2.x there are two (type 1
MK> and 6). In /proc/net/raw they have no inodes, any task structure haven't
MK> got them. So, what are they for and is there constant number of them?

These are the sockets used by kernel for tcp and udp.

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Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)


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