kern/162352: [patch] Enhancement: add SO_PROTO to socket.h

Jukka A. Ukkonen ext-jukka.1.ukkonen at nokia.com
Tue Nov 15 14:50:08 UTC 2011


The following reply was made to PR kern/162352; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jukka A. Ukkonen" <ext-jukka.1.ukkonen at nokia.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, jau at iki.fi
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/162352: [patch] Enhancement: add SO_PROTO to socket.h
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:46:55 +0200

 Apparently also HP-UX uses the name SO_PROTOTYPE,
 though, with a somewhat odd twist.
 A comment in <sys/socket.h> implies that in HP-UX
 this option could be used with setsockopt() to push
 another protocol to a raw socket.
 
 --jau


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