From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759128Ab2CAMeF (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2012 07:34:05 -0500 Received: from mx0.aculab.com ([213.249.233.131]:42371 "HELO mx0.aculab.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1759112Ab2CAMeD convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2012 07:34:03 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/10] af_unix: add multicast and filtering features to AF_UNIX Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 12:33:14 -0000 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1330604802.2465.43.camel@edumazet-laptop> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [PATCH 0/10] af_unix: add multicast and filtering features to AF_UNIX Thread-Index: Acz3pruiey8oJ/8WQ061ZRrQWTBZEAAAFkGA From: "David Laight" To: "Eric Dumazet" , "Javier Martinez Canillas" Cc: "David Miller" , , , , , , , , , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Mar 2012 12:33:14.0509 (UTC) FILETIME=[78CB4BD0:01CCF7A7] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > 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? > > > > Why adding an obscure set of IPC mechanism in network tree, and not > using (maybe extending) traditional IPC (Messages queues, semaphores, > Shared memory, pipes, futexes, ...). If it isn't a totally silly suggestion, why not write a simple device driver that just does what you want? Which (I think) is named pipes with multiple readers. David