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Date:      Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:37:41 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Maslan <maslanbsd@gmail.com>
Cc:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sosend() and mbuf
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Maslan wrote:
>> Is it possible to call kern_open() from within a kernel thread anyway?
> I think yes, It worked on the parent thread before creating a new kthread.
> See OpenKETA source, its using the same approach.

I wouldn't count on that..



>> kern_open() depends on a file descriptor table, right?
> Yes, it returns a fd in the curthread->td_retval[0], which i should
> use within the same thread to deal with this file.

and kernel threads have not file descriptors (I think) so....
it would crash...
  isn't that what you are seeing?

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