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Re: [PATCH] Allow getaddrinfo() to accept SCTP socket types in hints
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- To: Sridhar Samudrala <sri at us dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:32:13 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow getaddrinfo() to accept SCTP socket types in hints
- References: <1161129272.21091.7.camel@w-sridhar2.beaverton.ibm.com>
Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
SCTP has been supported in linux kernel for quite some time and the
2 styles of SCTP sockets are defined in the following SCTP sockets API
extension draft.
Last time I asked I was told to not even think about adding the sctp
functionality which currently resides in libsctp. Therefore I'm also
reluctant to add this patch especially since the cost to existing
programs is nonzero. Suddenly all programs which don't specify a
protocol in the getaddrinfo call also get the sctp reply. And those are
not really useful unless the entire SCTP API is available.
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