Removal of deprecated implied connect for TCP

[Robert Watson]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Andre Oppermann wrote:

>> I'm not entirely comfortable with this change, and would like a chance to 
>> cogitate on it a bit more. While I'm not aware of any applications 
>> depending on the semantic for TCP, I know that we do use it for UNIX domain 
>> sockets.
>
> I don't have any plans to remove the implied connect support from the socket 
> layer or other protocols, only from TCP.

Right -- the implicit question is: why should TCP be the only stream protocol 
in our stack *not* to support implied connection, when we plan to continue to 
support it for all other protocols?

> For deprecating this part of the TCP API there is no documentation to the 
> implied connect in tcp(4).  In sendto(2) it doesn't differentiate between 
> protocols and simply says: "... sendto() and sendmsg() may be used at any 
> time."  For MSG_EOF it says that is only supported for SOCK_STREAM sockets 
> in the PF_INET protocol family. These sentences have to be corrected.

In general, deprecating is taken to mean providing significant and explicit 
advance warning of removal -- for example, updating the 8.x man page to point 
out that the feature is deprecated and it will not appear in future releases 
of FreeBSD.

Robert