Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:29:07 -0700
From: "Eugene M. Kim" <freebsd.org@ab.ote.we.lv>
To: FreeBSD Bluetooth Mailing List <bluetooth@freebsd.org>
Subject: One AF_* constant for each of sockaddr_{hci,l2cap,rfcomm}?
Message-ID: <46D744B3.8080107@ab.ote.we.lv>
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Hello,
It seems that AF_BLUETOOTH ambiguously identifies three different types
of socket—HCI, L2CAP and RFCOMM—each with its own sockaddr_* type. This
deviates from the standard practice where there is a 1:1 mapping between
an AF_* constant and a corresponding sockaddr_* type, and this may, in
turn, break usage of system calls such as getsockname(2) and
getpeername(2): These calls return a struct sockaddr whose sa_family
should uniquely and unambiguously identify the real sockaddr_* struct to
which the returned sockaddr should be type-cast; if sa_family ==
AF_BLUETOOTH, there are three possibilities and an application that
calls get{sock,peer}name(2) cannot choose one of them without extra
information (namely, the third argument to the socket() call that
created the socket).
In this light, shouldn't a unique AF_* constant be allocated for each
Bluetooth socket type, such as AF_BTHCI, AF_BTL2CAP and AF_BTRFCOMM,
instead of just one AF_BLUETOOTH?
Regards,
Eugene
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