On 23/06/07 15:47, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > Advertisements it received. I considered storing the *complete* > Router Advertisement messages received and pushing them unparsed to > userland, just to get around the bogus "DNS in the kernel" politics > (hint: it's not a resolver in the kernel, it's just nameserver > addresses being stored). Does anyone really suggest that this would > be a better solution?
Yes, but I don't think it should be completely unparsed - it should be possible to retrieve the data for a specific attribute type with expiration information and with notification of changes. The kernel has to read RAs anyway, why shouldn't it store them in a way that userspace can access it on demand? A /proc file which is in resolv.conf format is definitely *wrong*, and while I'd argue for DNS being special enough to export its attributes is it really too much to have the kernel provide everything from the last valid message in a partially parsed format? Applications would then parse the data section for RA attributes they understand. -- Simon Arlott - 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
