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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:34:08 +0000 From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, herbert.xu@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hch@...radead.org, arjan@...radead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] [RFC] AF_RXRPC socket family implementation [try #2] On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:23:13 +0000 David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote: > Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > > If your messages are datagrams and unreliable -> SOCK_DGRAM > > Nope. > > > If your messages are datagrams and reliable -> SOCK_RDM > > Nope. > > > If your messages are datagrams, reliable and ordered -> SOCK_SEQPACKET > > Nope. > > > If your messages are streams of bits, reliable and ordered -> SOCK_STREAM > > Nope. So your messages are neither reliable not unreliable, nor ordered, nor unordered. NAK Until you work out what your messages actually are and use a proper standard socket type. And "but there are higher layers" isn't relevant here, this is true for Appletalk as well and it doesn't have to go inventing new types for everything as you seem to. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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