Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 02:53:07PM +0100, Thomas Graf wrote:

* jamal [ref] 2005-02-28 08:40

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netlink broadcast or a wrapper around it.
Why even bother doing the check with netlink_has_listeners()?

To implement the master enable/disable switch they want. The messages
don't get send out anyway but why bother doing all the work if nothing
will get send out in the end? It implements a well defined flag
controlled by open/close on fds (thus handles dying applications)
stating whether the whole code should be enabled or disabled.

Yep - this far from "reinventing the wheel". ;)

It is of course not needed to avoid sending unnecessary messages.

Thats the goal, thanks.