Thread (51 messages) 51 messages, 15 authors, 2012-03-05

Re: [PATCH 0/10] af_unix: add multicast and filtering features to AF_UNIX

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2012-02-28 19:06:15
Also in: netdev

From: Rodrigo Moya <redacted>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:47:39 +0100
Because of all of this, UDP/IP multicast wasn't even considered as an
option. We might be wrong in some/all of those, so could you please
comment on them to check if that's so?
You guys seem to want something that isn't AF_UNIX, ordering guarentees
and whatnot, it really has no place in these protocols.

You've designed a userlevel subsystem with requirements that no existing
socket layer can give, and you just figured you'd work that out later.

I think you rather should have reconsidered these premises and designed
something that could handle reality which is AF_UNIX can't do multicast
and nobody guarentees those strange ordering requirements you seem to
have.
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