hi friends, I got an idea of extending the Socket implementation and support asynchronous messaging over the socket with the client.and develop an api the user can use to communicate asynchronously in his applications. i want to know if this has been implemented at kernel level( obviously at application level we have many messaging servers).i want to do this to this to implement a high performance distributed system,which uses linux networking implementation. please give me your suggestions. thanks vamsi -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 1.2 GCS d+ H- s g+++ !p !au a21 w-- v--- C++ U+++ P++ L+++ !3 N-- E- W M- !VMS po+++ t-- !5 !j R- G? !tv b++++ -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/