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Missing the AF_BUS

Missing the AF_BUS

Posted Jul 10, 2012 9:59 UTC (Tue) by Hugne (subscriber, #82663)
Parent article: Missing the AF_BUS

"so there may be a significant amount of multicast interpersonal messaging required before we have multicast interprocess messaging in the kernel."

It's there already, with reliable delivery.. modprobe tipc.

It does not pass SCM_RIGHTS or FD's, but a patchset that does this for node-local TIPC messaging will probably gain more acceptance than a new AF..

I asked on netdev if they had considered this, but i never saw a reply why they didn't choose it.


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