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Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>,
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	Randall Stewart <rrs@freebsd.org>, "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/net Makefile.inc sctp_sys_calls.c  
 src/sys/sys param.h
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John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday 15 December 2006 14:45, Julian Elischer wrote:
>> Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
>>> Andre Oppermann wrote:
>>>> What makes these sctp_* syscalls so special as opposed to their
>>>> generic and protocol agnostic counterparts?
>>> They're used for operations which do not have a direct correspondence in 
>>> the existing functions, i.e. connecting to multihomed peers, and dealing 
>>> with one-to-many sockets.
>>>
>>> See Section 9.3-9.12, UNIX Network Programming Vol 1 3e for more info.
>>
>> generally we would use socket ops or ioctls for this sort of thing..
>> syscalls is not how they would normally be done....
> 
> I'll give a free paper cookie to the first person to actually go _read_ the
> committed code and notice that, *tada*, aside from the sctp_send*(), and
> sctp_recvmsg() functions, these are indeed library wrapper functions around
> getsockopt() and setsockopt().
> 


*blush*

it was the fact that they SAID they were syscalls that tripped me up.

I'll go shut up now..