From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] rxrpc: Don't permit use of connect() op and simplify sendmsg() op
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 21:07:13 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160414.210713.1128991767536792390.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160412150540.20637.31886.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:05:41 +0100
> Simplify the RxRPC user interface and remove the use of connect() to direct
> client calls. It is redundant given that sendmsg() can be given the target
> address and calls to multiple targets are permitted from a client socket
> and also from a service socket.
You can't just change completely the socket semantics for your
protocol like this, every single userland application is going to
break.
Sorry, there is no way I am applying changes like this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-15 1:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-12 15:05 [PATCH 0/3] RxRPC: 2nd rewrite part 2 David Howells
2016-04-12 15:05 ` [PATCH 1/3] rxrpc: Don't permit use of connect() op and simplify sendmsg() op David Howells
2016-04-15 1:07 ` David Miller [this message]
2016-04-15 3:26 ` David Howells
2016-04-12 15:05 ` [PATCH 2/3] rxrpc: The RXRPC_ACCEPT control message should not have an address David Howells
2016-04-12 15:05 ` [PATCH 3/3] rxrpc: Use the listen() system call to move to listening state David Howells
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