Re: IP_HDRINCL byte ordering
Greg Troxel <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:41:41 -0400
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I should add that while this is shed color perhaps, I don't like IP_HDRINCL_RAW as a name. The difference is just byte order of two fields. Thus, perhaps IP_HDRINCL_NBO which doesn't make sense, but will lead to looking up and seeing network byte order. As to Michael's comment, I interpret the patch as keeping the historical behavior and adding a new setsockopt, which while it will have a different name than used on other systems, should enable modifying their code to not have to htons differently, after some number of years. Given that, I don't see why NetBSD base code should change. (Regardless of what we do or don't change, improving the docs seems good.)