cvs commit: src/lib/libc/net Makefile.inc sctp_sys_calls.c src/sys/sys param.h

[Randall Stewart]

John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday 15 December 2006 14:45, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
>>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....
> 
> 
> I'll give a free paper cookie to the first person to actually go _read_ the
> committed code and notice that, *tada*, aside from the sctp_send*(), and
> sctp_recvmsg() functions, these are indeed library wrapper functions around
> getsockopt() and setsockopt().
> 
Exactly...

Thank you John.. I owe you a beer :-)

R

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