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SubjectRe: AF_BUS socket address family
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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.

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