From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: Vincent Sanders <vincent.sanders@collabora.co.uk>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AF_BUS socket address family
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:27:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FF72E15.1010703@genband.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1207052242450.2202@frira.zrqbmnf.qr>
> On Saturday 2012-06-30 01:12, Vincent Sanders wrote:
>> Firstly it is intended is an interprocess mechanism and not to rely on
>> a configured IP system, indeed one of its primary usages is to
>> provide mechanism for various tools to set up IP networking.
> Using IP as a localhost IPC is not uncommon (independent of
> software preferring AF_UNIX, if so available). Distro boot
> scripts have been running `ip addr add ::1/128 dev lo`
> all these years along.
>
> And now we suddently need a DBUS program just to configure
> IP-based localhost IPC? I can see the flaw in that.
>
I haven't tried it in a while but it used to be that you couldn't use IP
multicast on the "lo" device. Has that been fixed?
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-06 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-29 16:45 AF_BUS socket address family Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 01/15] net: bus: Add " Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 02/15] net: bus: Add documentation for AF_BUS Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 03/15] net: bus: Add AF_BUS socket and address definitions Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 04/15] security: Add Linux Security Modules hook for AF_BUS sockets Vincent Sanders
2012-07-09 3:32 ` James Morris
2012-07-09 18:02 ` Paul Moore
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 05/15] security: selinux: Add AF_BUS socket SELinux hooks Vincent Sanders
2012-07-09 18:38 ` Paul Moore
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 06/15] netfilter: Add NFPROTO_BUS hook constant for AF_BUS socket family Vincent Sanders
2012-07-01 2:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 07/15] scm: allow AF_BUS sockets to send ancillary data Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 08/15] net: bus: Add implementation of Bus domain sockets Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 09/15] net: bus: Add garbage collector for AF_BUS sockets Vincent Sanders
2012-07-02 17:44 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-03 12:11 ` Alban Crequy
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 10/15] net: bus: Add the AF_BUS socket address family to KBuild Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 11/15] netlink: connector: implement cn_netlink_reply Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 12/15] netlink: connector: Add idx and val identifiers for netfilter D-Bus Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 13/15] netfilter: nfdbus: Add D-bus message parsing Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 17:11 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-07-02 15:43 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-07-04 17:30 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-07-05 17:54 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 14/15] netfilter: nfdbus: Add D-bus match rule implementation Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 15/15] netfilter: add netfilter D-Bus module Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 18:16 ` AF_BUS socket address family Chris Friesen
2012-06-29 19:33 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-06-29 18:45 ` Casey Schaufler
2012-06-29 23:22 ` Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 22:36 ` David Miller
2012-06-29 23:12 ` Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 23:18 ` David Miller
2012-06-29 23:42 ` Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 23:50 ` David Miller
2012-06-30 0:09 ` Vincent Sanders
2012-06-30 13:12 ` Alan Cox
2012-07-01 0:33 ` David Miller
2012-07-01 14:16 ` Alan Cox
2012-07-01 21:45 ` David Miller
2012-06-30 0:13 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2012-06-30 12:52 ` Alan Cox
2012-07-02 14:51 ` Vincent Sanders
2012-07-02 4:49 ` Chris Friesen
2012-07-05 21:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-07-06 18:27 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2012-06-30 20:41 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2012-07-02 16:46 ` Alban Crequy
2012-07-05 7:59 ` Linus Walleij
2012-07-05 16:01 ` Daniel Walker
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-07-02 15:18 Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-07-03 16:52 ` Chris Friesen
2012-07-03 17:18 ` Chris Friesen
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