Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/6] net: Introduce read_sock_rectype proto_ops for control record delivery

On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:09:33 +0200 Sabrina Dubroca wrote:
> To avoid that, you'd have to run recvmsg-nocmsg/read_sock to get all
> the DATA out, then once you know the next chunk of payload is a
> control record (and hopefully nothing else is reading from your
> socket), one recvmsg+cmsg into a separate buffer.

I guess the difference in perspective stems from a fact that
I'd look at a socket as a stream one reads and dispatches work
based on the input. Not an abstraction layer that by itself
dispatches different handlers for different message types.