Re: [PATCH] Improve behaviour of Netlink Sockets

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 22:30, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 10:28:34PM -0400, jamal wrote:
> > 
> > Being able to prioritize control (errors and ACKs) would be valuable.
> > Would require mucking around with the socket queue. 
> > Something along what we do for a basic default 3 band queue (proabably
> > two band in this case) should work.
> 
> Obviously neither of you have taken my tip :)
> 
> You should never use your unicast socket to receive multicast messages.
> Otherwise you get to keep both pieces when it breaks.

Ok, good point as long as it is common knowledge. 

cheers,
jamal