From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932880Ab2F2Tdq (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:33:46 -0400 Received: from webmail.solarflare.com ([12.187.104.25]:39768 "EHLO ocex02.SolarFlarecom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755194Ab2F2Tdp (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:33:45 -0400 Message-ID: <1340998421.3066.10.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> Subject: Re: AF_BUS socket address family From: Ben Hutchings To: Chris Friesen CC: Vincent Sanders , , , "David S. Miller" Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:33:41 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4FEDF107.8030700@genband.com> References: <1340988354-26981-1-git-send-email-vincent.sanders@collabora.co.uk> <4FEDF107.8030700@genband.com> Organization: Solarflare Communications Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3 (3.2.3-1.fc16) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [10.17.20.137] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 12:16 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > On 06/29/2012 10:45 AM, Vincent Sanders wrote: > > This series adds the bus address family (AF_BUS) it is against > > net-next as of yesterday. > > > > AF_BUS is a message oriented inter process communication system. > > > > The principle features are: > > > > - Reliable datagram based communication (all sockets are of type > > SOCK_SEQPACKET) > > > > - Multicast message delivery (one to many, unicast as a subset) > > > > - Strict ordering (messages are delivered to every client in the same order) > > > > - Ability to pass file descriptors > > > > - Ability to pass credentials > > > > I haven't had time to look at the code yet, but if you haven't already > I'd like to propose adding the ability for someone with suitable > privileges to eavesdrop on all communications. We've been using > something similar to this (essentially a simplified multicast unix > datagram protocol) for many years now and having a tcpdump-like ability > is very useful for debugging. It's in there (look for 'eavesdrop' in 08/15). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.