Re: Question : Broadcast Inter Process Communication ?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 18 May 2002 04:23:30 +0100 (BST)

> That's exactly why I don't want to deal with it myself.
> However, the kernel deal with it all the time, and do it
> well. For example RtNetlink event have this property (except that they
> are kernel => process instead of beeing process => process).

By sending one copy of the message to each target. Its how everyone does
it except for special cases. Reliable multi-delivery is -hard-
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