Re: help in tcp/ip

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Thu, 29 May 2003, [iso-8859-1] mounir tahar abbes wrote:

> hello
> i want to modify the tcp_sendmsg in tcp.c for linux
> kernel 2.4.3
> in order to display the message sent and compress it
> -firs: i want to read the message sent and put it in a
>  text file.
>

Get a copy of the tcpdump source-code and see how it's done.
You do __not__ read/write files inside the kernel. You use
an external process `daemon` that writes files containing
stuff that came from inside the kernel.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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