From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:41:14 +0200 > When a socket is created it is sometime useful to store a specific information > for this socket. > > This information can be for examples: > * a creation time > * a pid > * a uid/gid > * a container identifier > * a pointer to a more specific structure > * ... > > The following patch is a proposition to add a private anonymous pointer > field to the common part of the sock structure.
We got rid of the private field a long time ago because not only is it not needed, it tends to get abused. Find another way to implement your feature. - 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
