Re: AF_BUS socket address family

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sun Jul 01 2012 - 10:12:58 EST


> The issue is that what to do when a receiver goes deaf is a policy
> issue.

Something all these protocols alredy recognize and have done for years.
The real issue for AF_BUS versus the current slow AF_UNIX approach is
that you really need to know *who* is blocked up.

That's no different to UDP multicast and needing to know how errored the
frame.

Alan
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