netdev - Re: Add a SOCK_DESTROY operation to close sockets from userspace

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Message-ID: <1447971335.22599.268.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Nov 2015 14:15:35 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Cc:	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	zenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>,
	Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Erik Kline <ek@...gle.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: Add a SOCK_DESTROY operation to close sockets from userspace

On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 23:09 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:

> My point is the "eventually" and the very much increased latency until
> the kernel learns about new better source addresses it has available. I
> would monitor link quality over time and decide source address based on
> this on the sending side.

We are here speaking of code running in a browser (like Chrome speaking
to Google servers). Written in java script or whatever language du jour.

It has no business of managing routes, or interfaces.



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