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From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
To: Bartosz Marcin Kojak <bartek@6bone.be>
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Subject: Re: inet_* functions in kernel?
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Hi Bartosz,

* Bartosz Marcin Kojak <bartek@6bone.be> wrote:
> I want to be able to write rules for module through sysctl (rule
> will contain IP addresses in human-readable format, e.g.
> "uid:1002:192.168.2.3") and I'm wondering how to translate addresses
> to network byte order without inet_* functions.

Wouldn't it be possible to do the conversion in userspace and write
something like a struct sockaddr_storage/in_addr_t/etc to the kernel?
That way you can avoid the string handling in kernel space entirely.

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 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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