On Thu, 2006-09-02 at 13:08 +0300, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote: > Hello! > > > I am not aware of anyone using it > > So, do not worry. The feature is dead.
I misunderstood your question. I thought you were asking about the > 32 groups. > Sending to multiple groups > never was used in real life and now it just does not exist, as it should > happen with useless features. > _I_ use it although i am not aware of anyone else (but since you put it in libnetlink, i suspect there may be other people) - so it is not totally useless ;-> [It is useful for selectively sending messages to different process groups using a single socket]. Note: Dave made a similar comment to yours; so i am fine working around this and use the konnector for example (which provides this functionality). The other idea i was tossing in my brain cells was using an xcast scheme to sendmsg by introducing a new structure which would allow explicitly listing > 1 groups and > 1 pid. > It is sad, that dead nl_groups stays in struct sockaddr_nl, of course. Its value has been highly reduced for sure. Let me know your thoughts on the xcast idea. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
