From: Thomas G. <tg...@su...> - 2005-02-28 13:52:59
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* jamal <1109598010.2188.994.camel@jzny.localdomain> 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. |