Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

[Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx>]

* jamal <1109598010.2188.994.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2005-02-28 08:40
> 
> netlink broadcast or a wrapper around it.
> Why even bother doing the check with netlink_has_listeners()?

To implement the master enable/disable switch they want. The messages
don't get send out anyway but why bother doing all the work if nothing
will get send out in the end? It implements a well defined flag
controlled by open/close on fds (thus handles dying applications)
stating whether the whole code should be enabled or disabled. It is of
course not needed to avoid sending unnecessary messages.