Eric Paris wrote: > > I would really prefer if you worked on eliminating the problem that > > prevents you from using netlink instead. > > I'm not really sure if I can, although I'd love to hear input from > someone who knows the netlink code on how I can make it do what I need. > I'm really not duplicating much other than the NLMSG_OK and NLMSG_NEXT > macros. My code doesn't even use skbs and I'm not savy enough to really > know how I could. I'm more than willing to work on it if someone can > point me to how it might work. Let's turn the question around. Since you're doing lots of non-sockety things, and can't tolerate dropped packets - why isn't it a character device? What's the reason for using a socket at all? (I'm reminded of /dev/poll, /dev/epoll and /dev/inotify :-) -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
