On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 03:30:50AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > The feature you think is so great about PFKEY (and thus also with BSD > routing sockets) is what those interfaces so synchronous and suck so > badly. When you make database dump request to BSD, it has to provide > the entire result in a single recvmsg() call regardless of how large > the database in question is. Agreed. I don't mind getting the ENOBUF error at all. It's when I get nothing from the recv and block forever that keeps me awake at night :) -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
