[PATCH] Don't imply TCP and UDP socket options are bitmasks

Alfred Perlstein bright at mu.org
Mon Jan 14 22:17:14 UTC 2013


On 1/14/13 4:56 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Monday, January 14, 2013 4:42:16 pm Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> Wouldn't a comment over the code suffice?
>>
>> Something like your email as a header would actually work very nicely!
>>
>> I think just using decimal would be more confusing than explicitly
>> calling it out like:
>>
>> /* begin enumerated (not bitmask) socket option specifiers */
>> #define	TCP_MAXSEG	0x02	/* set maximum segment size */
>> #define TCP_NOPUSH	0x04	/* don't push last block of write */
>> #define TCP_NOOPT	0x08	/* don't use TCP options */
>> #define TCP_MD5SIG	0x10	/* use MD5 digests (RFC2385) */
>> /* end enumerated socket option specifiers */
> I have a patch I'll post next which will add a new option as '3'.  I think that
> will make it more obvious and avoid having new options follow the old pattern.
>
Any objection to adding the contents of that email as a comment 
section?  It really would help.


-Alfred


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