Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:40:38 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: packet: option to only pass skb protocol | From | David Miller <> |
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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 22:50:40 +0200
> binding socket to device might be done by a separate process > from the one doing sendmsg, and IMO the device socket is bound > to might change at any time. > > So the sending process would need to get socket name before > each sendmsg. > > Makes sense?
Not really, when it's at the expense of everyone else.
If you can pass the FD around, you can pass around auxiliary information as well.
Make sense? :-)
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