From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752506AbXCSTT7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:19:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752382AbXCSTT7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:19:59 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:38772 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752439AbXCSTT6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:19:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:19:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20070319.121958.48807741.davem@davemloft.net> To: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, mrmacman_g4@mac.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, herbert.xu@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, arjan@infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] [RFC] AF_RXRPC socket family implementation [try #2] From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <25752.1174318898@redhat.com> References: <2578.1174305403@redhat.com> <3728.1174309154@redhat.com> <25752.1174318898@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: David Howells Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:41:38 +0000 > Alan Cox wrote: > > > So use SOCK_DGRAM, its clearly near enough. > > No, it's not. SOCK_DGRAM is an unreliable, unidirectional datagram passing > service. David we're not looking for a precise match, so please stop discussing this in those terms. We're looking for something close enough. The more and more I read Alan's arguments and your resistence to his logic, the more I side with Alan. He's definitely right on all the basic counts here.