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From: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart)
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 14:04:38 +0100
In-Reply-To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
       "Re: Apparent bug in sendto() with raw sockets" (Jun 25, 11:40am)
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To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Subject: Re: Apparent bug in sendto() with raw sockets
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On Jun 25, 11:40am, Bill Fenner wrote:
} Subject: Re: Apparent bug in sendto() with raw sockets
> In message <Pine.BSF.3.95.980625101801.21522C-100000@current1.whistle.com>you w
> interface, which requires length and offset in host order.  AFAIK,
> this original implementation happened on suns, which is why nobody
> noticed at the time.  We are compatible with this original
> implementation.  OpenBSD and Linux chose to change the semantics
> to the ones that are less surprising but not backwards compatible.

I think its more important to be correct in this area, raw sockets
programming can be tricky enough without what will seem to the
user like gratuitous changes.  If Linux and OpenBSD have done it,
thats all the more reason to go for it...

$2c

Niall

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