I've found myself having do some socket programming in the linux kernel. (yes, yes, I know: have I thought about user space? Yes, that's where I've prototyped my code. This is a research project that ...

Hi,<BR><BR>I'm trying to create a program that can tie the I/O of a socket to some kind of text box. The user types in the box, and whatever comes back through the socket gets displayed there as well.

TCP/IP network programming in C on Linux is good fun. All the advanced features of the stack are at your disposal, and you can do lot of interesting things in user space without getting into kernel ...