linux-kernel - Re: Why add the general notification queue and its sources

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Message-ID: <24430.1567804750@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Fri, 06 Sep 2019 22:19:10 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>,
        Ray Strode <rstrode@...hat.com>,
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        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "Ray, Debarshi" <debarshi.ray@...il.com>,
        Robbie Harwood <rharwood@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Why add the general notification queue and its sources

Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:

> Something else which we should consider up front is how to handle the
> case where you have multiple userspace processes that want to
> subscribe to the same notification.

I have that.

> This also implies that we'll need to have some kind of standard header
> at the beginning to specify the source of a particular notification
> message.

That too.

David