On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 12:16:25PM -0700, Caitlin Bestler wrote:
> > 2) Are there real users or is this a generic uDAPL API thing?
> 
> uDAPL vs. kDAPL is irrelevant here. The user or Kernel Consumer
> making the connection does not know whether their peer is running
> in user or kernel, nor should they.

Caitlin,
I didn't see an answer to Roland's question in your reply.
There is no kDAPL in linux. So yes, I agree uDAPL v kDAPL is irrelevant.

> Every discussion of reducing the guaranteed private data size
> in DAPL has produced adverse reactions from application developers.
> They're either very good actors or were working on actual applications.

Roland (and the rest of us) would like to see someone name a real consumer
of the proposed interface. ie who depends on this change?
Then the dependency for that use/user can be discussed and
appropriate tradeoffs made. Make sense?

hth,
grant
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