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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/10] af_unix: add multicast and filtering features to AF_UNIX
On 02/28/2012 08:05 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo.moya@collabora.co.uk>
> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:47:39 +0100
>
>> Because of all of this, UDP/IP multicast wasn't even considered as an
>> option. We might be wrong in some/all of those, so could you please
>> comment on them to check if that's so?
>
> You guys seem to want something that isn't AF_UNIX, ordering guarentees
> and whatnot, it really has no place in these protocols.
>
> You've designed a userlevel subsystem with requirements that no existing
> socket layer can give, and you just figured you'd work that out later.
>
> I think you rather should have reconsidered these premises and designed
> something that could handle reality which is AF_UNIX can't do multicast
> and nobody guarentees those strange ordering requirements you seem to
> have.

Yes, you are right it doesn't follow AF_UNIX semantics so Unix sockets
is not the best place to add our multicast implementation.

So, now we are trying a different approach. To create a new address
family AF_MCAST. That way we can have more control over the semantics of
the socket interface for that family.

We expect to have some patches in a few days and we will resend.

Does this makes more sense to you?

Best regards,
Javier


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