[OpenAFS-devel] Progress on Linux in-kernel RxRPC library

[Kyle Moffett]

One recent OpenAFS-applicable development in the 2.6 kernel is an
in-kernel RxRPC library.  I'm currently working with David Howells
to write a userspace interface to the kernel lib via sockets, with
the standard syscalls socket(), bind(), connect(), listen(),
accept(), sendmsg(), recvmsg(), read(), and write() syscalls to
manipulate the AF_RXRPC sockets.  Would you be interested in using
such a layer in OpenAFS on Linux?  It will support the new keyring
infrastructure in Linux 2.6 to allow users to create and pass AFS
credential information in a standardized way.  When we get a
prototype working we'll probably write a libkrxrpc for userspace
that provides an identical interface to the existing IBM RxRPC lib.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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