Re: RFFR
Kathleen Poulsen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.libnet |
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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. > > -- > Aaron Turner <aturner at pobox.com|synfin.net> http://synfin.net/ > They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin > All emails are PGP signed; a lack of a signature indicates a forgery.