Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:45:30 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Randall Stewart <rrs@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Andre Oppermann <andre@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/net Makefile.inc sctp_sys_calls.c src/sys/sys param.h Message-ID: <4582FB5A.4010208@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <4582A6C9.8010009@FreeBSD.org> References: <200612151201.kBFC1qEv006825@repoman.freebsd.org> <4582A1E0.1050503@freebsd.org> <4582A6C9.8010009@FreeBSD.org>
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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.... > > Regards, > BMS
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