Using CMSG_NXTHDR to construct ancillary data lists

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Wed Dec 7 10:48:00 GMT 2016


On 12/07/2016 11:33 AM, Alexander Monakov wrote:
> This was previously raised as PR 13500:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13500

Thanks, I knew I saw it somewhere before.

The arguments based on historic RFCs are not quite convincing.  A note 
in Stevens says that not all systems support multiple ancillary messages 
per control block, and those RFCs are unlikely to mandate adding such 
support.

Florian



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