netdev - Re: bind and O

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Date:	Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:59:38 +0400
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: bind and O_NONBLOCK

On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 09:21:06AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper (drepper@...hat.com) wrote:
> Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > So, did I understand you correctly, that you want to introduce network
> > AIO here? (for example on behalf of work queue or something else?)
> 
> See Alan's mail.  All this was his proposal, I just got it accepted
> upstream.
> 
> The problem to solve is if you have a distributed network port set.
> Apparently NetBIOS has it but I could also imagine this to be useful in
> cluster implementations which have to appear as one machine.  In this
> case, before binding to a given port, you have to make sure no other
> machine already handles this port.

Yes, to handle bind conflict in some or another way.
Could you point to the original Alan's proposal, I only found short note
(as in you original mail) at opengroup.org and failed to correctly
googlify it in the web.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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