Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

Paul Jackson
2005-03-01T20:51:29Z

Jamal wrote:
> What was wrong with just going ahead and just always
> invoking your netlink_send()?

I think the hope was to reduce the cost of the accounting hook in fork
to "next-to-zero" if accounting is not being used on that system.

See Andrew's query earlier:
> b) they are next-to-zero cost if something is listening on the netlink
> socket but no accounting daemon is running.

Presumably sending an ignored packet costs something, quite possibly
more than "next-to-zero".

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