From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: AF_BUS socket address family Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:33:41 +0100 Message-ID: <1340998421.3066.10.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> References: <1340988354-26981-1-git-send-email-vincent.sanders@collabora.co.uk> <4FEDF107.8030700@genband.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Vincent Sanders , , , "David S. Miller" To: Chris Friesen Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4FEDF107.8030700@genband.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.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.