> What cringes me too is it is a distributed system I still don't understand why they don't use (or extend, if necessary) TIPC, which is already a distributed

> What cringes me too is it is a distributed system I still don't understand why they don't use (or extend, if necessary) TIPC, which is already a distributed IPC protocol that is already in the kernel. Why build a library around an existing feature that has already had a lot of testing when you can say NIH and design something new with an entirely new set of bugs? http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg190623.html http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg190623.html