Jamal wrote: > What was wrong with just going ahead and just always > invoking your netlink_send()?
I think the hope was to reduce the cost of the accounting hook in fork to "next-to-zero" if accounting is not being used on that system. See Andrew's query earlier: > b) they are next-to-zero cost if something is listening on the netlink > socket but no accounting daemon is running. Presumably sending an ignored packet costs something, quite possibly more than "next-to-zero". -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/