Network Drivers
by
Bryan Hinton
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last modified
Jul 03, 2009 03:39 PM
9.6 Network Drivers
Drivers for network devices do not use device nodes in order to be accessed. Their selection is based on other decisions made inside the kernel and instead of calling open(), use of a network device is generally introduced by using the system call socket(2).
For more information see ifnet(9), the source of the loopback device, and Bill Paul's network drivers.
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