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From: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 00:01:40 +0200

> I don't think you understood the problem, we want something that scale
> for less powerful devices, why do you think Android have all the
> trouble to create binder?

So our protocol stack is so cpu hungry compared to AF_UNIX that it's
unusable on low power devices?

I can't take you seriously if you say this after showing us the
thousands of lines of code you guys think we should add to the AF_UNIX
socket layer.

> Besides what is really the point in having AF_UNIX if you can't use
> for what it is for?

Because it doesn't have the handful of extra features you absolutely
require of it.

AF_UNIX is a complicated socket layer which is already extremely hard
to maintain.  We're still finding bugs in it even after all these
years, and that's without adding major new functionality.