From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Friesen Subject: Re: anyone ever done multicast AF_UNIX sockets? Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 13:07:45 -0500 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3E6399F1.10303@nortelnetworks.com> References: <3E5E7081.6020704@nortelnetworks.com> <1046695876.7731.78.camel@pc-16.office.scali.no> <3E638C51.2000904@nortelnetworks.com> <20030303.085504.105424448.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: terje.eggestad@scali.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David S. Miller wrote: > From: Chris Friesen > Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:09:37 -0500 > > Unless you poll for messages on the receiving side, how do you trigger > the receiver to look for a message? > > Send signals. Use a FUTEX, be creative... Suppose I have a process that waits on UDP packets, the unified local IPC that we're discussing, other unix sockets, and stdin. It's awfully nice if the local IPC can be handled using the same select/poll mechanism as all the other messaging. Chris -- Chris Friesen | MailStop: 043/33/F10 Nortel Networks | work: (613) 765-0557 3500 Carling Avenue | fax: (613) 765-2986 Nepean, ON K2H 8E9 Canada | email: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com