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: 2012-03-01 22:09:02
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From: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 00:01:40 +0200
I don't think you understood the problem, we want something that scale
for less powerful devices, why do you think Android have all the
trouble to create binder?
So our protocol stack is so cpu hungry compared to AF_UNIX that it's
unusable on low power devices?

I can't take you seriously if you say this after showing us the
thousands of lines of code you guys think we should add to the AF_UNIX
socket layer.
Besides what is really the point in having AF_UNIX if you can't use
for what it is for?
Because it doesn't have the handful of extra features you absolutely
require of it.

AF_UNIX is a complicated socket layer which is already extremely hard
to maintain.  We're still finding bugs in it even after all these
years, and that's without adding major new functionality.
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