From: Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:12:28 -0800
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > David Miller wrote: > > Most daemons handle this by listening for events on the netlink > > socket, but I understand how that might not be practical for > > glibc. > > Right, this cannot work. I have no inner loop which I can control. I > cannot install a listener. > > At some point, when we have non-sequential, hidden file descriptors, > I'll be able to leave a socket file descriptor open. But that's about > it. Even then the generation counter interface is likely to be the best > choice. Ok, I'll think about how to implement this. > BTW, is it possible to send both these requests out before starting to > read the results? This would reduce the amount of code quite a bit. Unfortunately, that won't work. Like datagram protocols, netlink assumes one message per sendmsg() call. - 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
