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Message-Id: <20120301.154415.1692328508436381200.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:44:15 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	javier.martinez@...labora.co.uk, rodrigo.moya@...labora.co.uk,
	javier@...labora.co.uk, lennart@...ttering.net,
	kay.sievers@...y.org, alban.crequy@...labora.co.uk,
	bart.cerneels@...labora.co.uk, sjoerd.simons@...labora.co.uk,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] af_unix: add multicast and filtering features to
 AF_UNIX

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:26:42 -0800

> Why adding an obscure set of IPC mechanism in network tree, and not
> using (maybe extending) traditional IPC (Messages queues, semaphores,
> Shared memory, pipes, futexes, ...).

I actually don't understand why there is so much resistence to using a
real bonafide on-the-wire protocol, and that way if you ever wanted to
connect dbus instances on multiple machines or log dbus transactions
remotely for debugging, you could just do it.
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