Title: ip_read()


If there are unexpired packets in the ip file descriptor fd's read queue, ip_read(fd, count) passes count (ip_read()'s second parameter) bytes off to the next-higher layer by calling packet2user(). If the packets in the file descriptor's read queue have expired, ip_read() discards the packets.

ip_read() is (indirectly) called by sr_rwio() when a process reads an ip device file (e.g., /dev/ip).

In the udp code, ip_read() is called by read_ip_packets() during the initialization of the udp code. Normally, ip_read() is not called by the udp code after the initialization.