Hi guys, I'm hearing noise about the 'Extended Sockets' API in Oracle. It's an extension to the socket API put together by an industry group that calls itself the Interconnect Software Consortium and is working in partnership with the open group. The API adds support for things like memory registration, async operations completed through event queues, "standard" sendfile() and async poll(), etc.
It's freely downloadable as a PDF from http://www.opengroup.org/icsc/doc.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&gdid=6415 Page 7 has a list of contributors that seems to have a glaring lack of "free" unix representation of any kind :( It seems certain that the commercial Unix vendors will adopt pieces of it in some capacity. Which means Oracle guys will want to play with it. Which means I'll get questions about supporting it in Linux :) Has the netdev world developed an opinion about this stuff? - z - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
