Subject: Re: [RFC] [GIT PATCH net-2.6.23] IPV6: Configurable IPv6 address selection policy table (RFC3484)

From: Ulrich Drepper <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:39:22 -0700

David Miller wrote:
> One idea is to have glibc have some kind of socket open, subscribed
> to a group which gets "sticky" events.

I don't quite yet know the context but I have to intervene: keeping
sockets open is not good.  This will only cause problems.

Any interface must be memory based.  Something like "register a word
which is set when an event arrives" is a much better interface.  Who you
then go and retrieve messages is another issue.  If this is a rare event
then opening is new netlink socket is no problem.

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