Re: anyone ever done multicast AF_UNIX sockets?

Chris Friesen (cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com)
Mon, 03 Mar 2003 13:07:45 -0500

David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
> Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:09:37 -0500
>
> Unless you poll for messages on the receiving side, how do you trigger
> the receiver to look for a message?
>
> Send signals. Use a FUTEX, be creative...

Suppose I have a process that waits on UDP packets, the unified local
IPC that we're discussing, other unix sockets, and stdin. It's awfully
nice if the local IPC can be handled using the same select/poll
mechanism as all the other messaging.

Chris

-- 
Chris Friesen                    | MailStop: 043/33/F10
Nortel Networks                  | work: (613) 765-0557
3500 Carling Avenue              | fax:  (613) 765-2986
Nepean, ON K2H 8E9 Canada        | email: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/