Jamal wrote:
> What was wrong with just going ahead and just always
> invoking your netlink_send()?
I think the hope was to reduce the cost of the accounting hook in fork
to "next-to-zero" if accounting is not being used on that system.
See Andrew's query earlier:
> b) they are next-to-zero cost if something is listening on the netlink
> socket but no accounting daemon is running.
Presumably sending an ignored packet costs something, quite possibly
more than "next-to-zero".
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