Re: [PATCH 0/5] [RFC] AF_RXRPC socket family implementation [try#2]

[Alan Cox]

> IMHO the problem with classifying RxRPC as a "reliable datagram"  
> socket is that even an atomic unidirectional communication isn't a  
> single datagram, it's at least 3; there is shared connection state  

Thats fine. Any *reliable* protocol sends more than one packet per
message you send. RDM is for reliable messages

> independent and possibly simultaneous RxRPC calls.  From the digging  
> around that I did in the kernel socket code a while ago I don't see a  
> cleaner way of implementing it than a new SOCK_RXRPC.

I disagree entirely. I've still seen no evidence you need a new type for
this. What does AIX do  out of interest ?
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