Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Feb 2005 06:52:04 -0300 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages |
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 02:53:07PM +0100, Thomas Graf wrote: > * jamal <1109598010.2188.994.camel@jzny.localdomain> 2005-02-28 08:40 > > > > netlink broadcast or a wrapper around it. > > Why even bother doing the check with netlink_has_listeners()? > > To implement the master enable/disable switch they want. The messages > don't get send out anyway but why bother doing all the work if nothing > will get send out in the end? It implements a well defined flag > controlled by open/close on fds (thus handles dying applications) > stating whether the whole code should be enabled or disabled.
Yep - this far from "reinventing the wheel". ;)
> It is of course not needed to avoid sending unnecessary messages.
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