Hi!

quoted

My vote would be for a new socket family for the low-level protocol,
with room for extension later to support the advanced features.

This should be one of the simplest socket implementations possible, if
you just need to send and receive 32 bit words, and can bind to a
a set of labels for rx as you described above.

The only possible concern I see with that interface is slightly higher
latency than what you would be able to get with a straight read/write
based character device.

Any further feedback on this ?

Key question: Would a new address family have a chance of being accepted ?

Yes... that seems like cleanest way to implement it.

									Pavel
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