svn commit: r215178 - in head: lib/libc/sys sys/kern sys/sys

[Ivan Voras]

On 12 November 2010 14:02, Luigi Rizzo <luigi at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: luigi
> Date: Fri Nov 12 13:02:26 2010
> New Revision: 215178
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/215178
>
> Log:
>  This commit implements the SO_USER_COOKIE socket option, which lets
>  you tag a socket with an uint32_t value. The cookie can then be
>  used by the kernel for various purposes, e.g. setting the skipto
>  rule or pipe number in ipfw (this is the reason SO_USER_COOKIE has
>  been implemented; however there is nothing ipfw-specific in its
>  implementation).

While at it, why not intptr_t? It would be marginally more useful and
almost free.