y has the preceding 3 bullet points on us.</li>
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<h3>Rationale</h3>
<p >This function exists because elsewhere in <a class="el" href="namespaceipc_1_1transport.html" title="Flow-IPC module providing transmission of structured messages and/or low-level blobs (and more) betwe...">ipc::transport</a> needed it internally. It is a public API basically opportunistically: it's generic enough to be useful in its own right potentially, but as of this writing there's no use case. This explains the aforementioned