Re: New Address Family: Inter Process Networking (IPN)

"This document describes Linux Netlink, which is used in Linux both as
an intra-kernel messaging system as well as between kernel and user
space."

It can be used between user space daemons as well. In fact it is.
e.g. they often listen to each other's messages.

-Andi

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