On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 09:21:06AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > So, did I understand you correctly, that you want to introduce network > > AIO here? (for example on behalf of work queue or something else?) > > See Alan's mail. All this was his proposal, I just got it accepted > upstream. > > The problem to solve is if you have a distributed network port set. > Apparently NetBIOS has it but I could also imagine this to be useful in > cluster implementations which have to appear as one machine. In this > case, before binding to a given port, you have to make sure no other > machine already handles this port.
Yes, to handle bind conflict in some or another way. Could you point to the original Alan's proposal, I only found short note (as in you original mail) at opengroup.org and failed to correctly googlify it in the web. -- Evgeniy Polyakov - 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