# Re: AF\_BUS socket address family

- From: David Miller \<davem@davemloft.net\>
- Date: 2012-06-29 23:18:25 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2012/06/3886940
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2012/06/3886804/t.md

```text
From: Vincent Sanders <redacted>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:12:37 +0100

> I had hoped you would have at least read the opening list where I
> outlined the underlying features which explain why none of the
> existing IPC match the requirements.

I had hoped that you had read the part we told you last time where
we explained why multicast and "reliable delivery" are fundamentally
incompatible attributes.

We are not creating a full address family in the kernel which exists
for one, and only one, specific and difficult user.
```