Re: raw socket, IP_HDRINCL byteorder

Todd Vierling <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:50:07 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Newsgroups gmane.os.bsd.api.general
Message-ID <Pine.WNT.4.43.0209250046050.1780-100000@win2k>
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Andrew Brown wrote:

: >Okay, if we have to pick a name, how about IP_HDR_RAW?
:
: that's just as undescriptive.  how about something that indicates that
: the headers in question are in network byte order?

Why does that need to be explicit?

The fact is, all other IP-based operations all the way down to sockaddr_in
use network byte order, so it's *normal* to assume that other IP operations
will be.  The name should probably, instead, reflect that these are "true"
raw packets, as contrasted to HDRINCL.

Are there some non-*BSD's out there with prior art?  SVR4?  Anybody?

Maybe just call it IP_TRUE_PACKET?  8-)

-- 
-- Todd Vierling <[email protected]>


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