On 11/16/11 12:55 AM, Ed Schouten wrote:
* Maxim Ignatenko<[email protected]>, 20111115 21:18:
I'm currently inventing the wheel^W^W^Wwriting a firewall from scratch and
looking for most convenient way to establish communication between userspace
processes and kernel part. Communication pattern best fits to listening
PF_LOCAL socket opened from kernel and userspace processes connecting to it.
What's wrong with a character device?

you can't easily have a different character device depending on which jail you are in.. (well, you can but it gets tricky).. see the problem with /dev/pflog and vimages.


Maxim, look at the usage of sockets with netgraph ng_socket node..  also
divert sockets.


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