Re: AF_BUS socket address family

[Chris Friesen]

> On Saturday 2012-06-30 01:12, Vincent Sanders wrote:
> > Firstly it is intended is an interprocess mechanism and not to rely on
> > a configured IP system, indeed one of its primary usages is to
> > provide mechanism for various tools to set up IP networking.
> Using IP as a localhost IPC is not uncommon (independent of
> software preferring AF_UNIX, if so available). Distro boot
> scripts have been running `ip addr add ::1/128 dev lo`
> all these years along.
>
> And now we suddently need a DBUS program just to configure
> IP-based localhost IPC? I can see the flaw in that.

I haven't tried it in a while but it used to be that you couldn't use IP 
multicast on the "lo" device.  Has that been fixed?

Chris
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