Message-ID: <1340998421.3066.10.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>
Subject: Re: AF_BUS socket address family
From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
CC: Vincent Sanders <vincent.sanders@collabora.co.uk>,
        <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:33:41 +0100
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On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 12:16 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> On 06/29/2012 10:45 AM, Vincent Sanders wrote:
> > This series adds the bus address family (AF_BUS) it is against
> > net-next as of yesterday.
> >
> > AF_BUS is a message oriented inter process communication system.
> >
> > The principle features are:
> >
> >   - Reliable datagram based communication (all sockets are of type
> >     SOCK_SEQPACKET)
> >
> >   - Multicast message delivery (one to many, unicast as a subset)
> >
> >   - Strict ordering (messages are delivered to every client in the same order)
> >
> >   - Ability to pass file descriptors
> >
> >   - Ability to pass credentials
> >
> 
> I haven't had time to look at the code yet, but if you haven't already 
> I'd like to propose adding the ability for someone with suitable 
> privileges to eavesdrop on all communications.  We've been using 
> something similar to this (essentially a simplified multicast unix 
> datagram protocol) for many years now and having a tcpdump-like ability 
> is very useful for debugging.

It's in there (look for 'eavesdrop' in 08/15).

Ben.

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