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This patch adds the sock_diag interface for querying sockets from userspace. Tools like ss(8) and netstat(8) can use this interface to list open sockets. The userspace ABI is defined in <linux/vm_sockets_diag.h> and includes netlink request and response structs. The request can query sockets based on their sk_state (e.g. listening sockets only) and the response contains socket information fields including the local/remote addresses, inode number, etc. This patch does not dump VMCI pending sockets because I have only tested the virtio transport, which does not use pending sockets. Support can be added later by extending vsock_diag_dump() if needed by VMCI users. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.