Re: RFFR

Kathleen Poulsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.libnet
Message-ID <[email protected]>
do you have and alternate suggestion for not consuming
a file descriptor for each context?

kathleen

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:13:04AM -0800, Aaron Turner wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:01:33AM +0100, Frédéric Raynal wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:54:37AM -0500, Kathleen Poulsen wrote:
> > > 
> > > 1 file descriptor per interface rather than per context (i think
> > > this is underway).
> > 
> > Yep.
> > 
> > Note that it will very certainly break the current API :-(
> 
> Breaking the API is bad.  People still haven't recovered (ie: ported all
> the code) from the last API.  I can't speak for anyone other then
> myself, but I can say that I will have to seriously consider switching
> to something other then libnet if the API breaks and there is no simple
> means for the current and new API's to co-exist on the same box.  I just
> can't keep expecting my users to keep jumping through hoops to compile
> my code like that.
> 
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