Kernel prepatch 4.0-rc4

Posted Mar 17, 2015 20:14 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Kernel prepatch 4.0-rc4 by sorokin
Parent article: Kernel prepatch 4.0-rc4

> What is the problem it is supposed to solve that can not be solved with UNIX domain socket?

As i understand it, the issue that UNIX sockets can't solve is broadcast/multicast. There were proposals to add such capabilities to sockets, but they were rejected.