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
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