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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 3/3] Process events biarch bug: New process events connector value
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On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 14:39 -0700, Matt Helsley wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 12:14 -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 04:49 -0700, Matt Helsley wrote:
> > > "Deprecate" existing Process Events connector interface and add a new one
> > > that works cleanly on biarch platforms.
> > >
> > > Any expansion of the previous event structure would break userspace's ability
> > > to workaround the biarch incompatibility problem. Hence this patch creates a
> > > new interface and generates events (for both when necessary).
> >
> > Is there a reason why the # of listeners part is removed (basically the
> > LISTEN/IGNORE) ? and why as part of this patch ?
>
> Michael Kerrisk had some objections to LISTEN/IGNORE and I've been
> looking into making a connector function that would replace them. They
> exist primarily to improve performance by avoiding the memory allocation
> in cn_netlink_send() when there are no listeners.

If it not related this bug, can you please separate them.

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