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Old 11-10-2009, 07:08 AM   #1
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socket or not from struct file

Hi,

I want to be able to differentiate between disk I/O and network I/O from vfs_read(). This function takes a pointer to a struct file as a parameter. My question is how to figure whether that file is a socket or a physical file on disk. Thanks.
 
  


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