Minimal install diff from F16 to F19 (TC6)

Glen Turner gdt at gdt.id.au
Mon Jun 24 01:15:16 UTC 2013


On 21/06/2013, at 10:31 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> 
> Current network information is available from the kernel and doesn't
> require "guessing".  Why would you code something to talk to some random
> daemon API (that may change) when you could talk directly to the source
> via the kernel netlink API?

The classic here being applications which look for NM messages to indicate that networking connectivity is available rather than waiting on the presence of non-directly connected routes in the routing table.

-glen
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