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Date:      Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:40:44 -0500
From:      Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, andre@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, rrs@FreeBSD.org, julian@elischer.org, bms@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/net Makefile.inc sctp_sys_calls.c   src/sys/sys param.h
Message-ID:  <20061215204044.22d7d0e7.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200612151551.31355.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <200612151201.kBFC1qEv006825@repoman.freebsd.org> <4582A6C9.8010009@FreeBSD.org> <4582FB5A.4010208@elischer.org> <200612151551.31355.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:51:30 -0500
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> 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().
> 
Adding useless fodder, I must say ...

"John for the win"

-- 
Tom Rhodes



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