Re: RFC: IPSEC patch 0 for netlink events

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 03:11:15PM -0500, jamal wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 14:47, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> > Since we're adding new multicast groups, what about adding one for
> > the passive event monitor? That way we can return ESRCH in km_query
> > if there are no registered ACQUIRE listeners but still send messages
> > to the monitor.
> 
> Not sure how to do it for both PF_KEY and netlink. It does sound like a
> reasonable thing to do. Thoughts?

For non-standard extensions like this I wouldn't worry about PF_KEY.
After all, if you're going to make sense of all the messages from
the kernel you'll have to use netlink anyway.

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