Hello! > This fix goes against the old historical comments about UNIX98 semantics > but without this fix SOCK_DGRAM is broken and useless. So either ANK's > interpretation was incorect or UNIX98 standard was wrong.
Just found this reference to me. :-) The comment migrated from tcp.c. It is only about connected SOCK_STREAM sockets, I do not see how it can make SOCK_DGRAM broken or useless. That UNIX98 statement allowed to avoid expensive callback to protocol specific setup of address in tcp_recvmsg(). Alexey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html