Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755038AbXLFQfs (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 11:35:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752945AbXLFQfk (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 11:35:40 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:44054 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750954AbXLFQfj (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 11:35:39 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 17:35:38 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Renzo Davoli Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New Address Family: Inter Process Networking (IPN) Message-ID: <20071206163538.GC20595@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20071205164055.GA2082@cs.unibo.it> <20071206053016.GA1464@cs.unibo.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071206053016.GA1464@cs.unibo.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 528 Lines: 14 > "This document describes Linux Netlink, which is used in Linux both as > an intra-kernel messaging system as well as between kernel and user > space." It can be used between user space daemons as well. In fact it is. e.g. they often listen to each other's messages. -Andi -- 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/