(usagi-users 03416) Re: Any particular reason that IPV6_TCLASS/IPV6_RECVTCLASS is not implemented?

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, David Stevens wrote:

>
> > Thank you very much for the patches.  Adding sticky option support for
> > IPV6_TCLASS (which is what I needed) was exceedingly trivial - just take
> > the code from datagram_send_ctl in datagram.c and do the similar thing
> > in ipv6_setsockopt in ipv6_sockglue.c.  It works.
>
>         The sticky options have issues of their own to resolve (probably
> not TCLASS so much), but the reason care is needed is because there are
> a lot of cases where they interact with other things, some of them
> that aren't part of the POSIX standard.

OK, I can see that - I was focused on my own needs, the TCLASS, and that
was very simple to make sticky, no interaction with any other facilities.

But - do you have any opinions on the other issue I raised - the
transition issue?  I will probably have to hack a solution within my
project - there I need packages right here and now (such as quagga and
iputils) that are run-time independent on whether the kernel contains your
patch or not - and to me that says, "use a /proc entry to detect the
semantics".  If I could design and test that solution so other people
might use it, everyone would profit.

best regards
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