Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:30:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> To: andre@freebsd.org Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of deprecated implied connect for TCP Message-ID: <201008311830.o7VIUBig022098@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> References: <4C7A7B25.9040300@freebsd.org> <4C7D02BB.40300@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008311102220.22661@fledge.watson.org> <7B42D7FB-B782-4EE9-8813-BF7D3ED3274B@lurchi.franken.de>
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In article <4C7D02BB.40300@freebsd.org> andre@freebsd.org writes: >sendto() will not be touched or modified. It's just that on a TCP socket >the tcp protocol will not perform an implied connect anymore. The only thing >that changes is TCP dropping a deprecated and experimental extension and >behaving like every other UNIXy OS. That's a little bit disingenuous, methinks. Support for the "deprecated and experimental extension" -- RFC 1644 -- was dropped a number of years ago. (Longer ago than I can easily recall.) The implict open/close mechanism is orthogonal to the long-gone support for RFC 1644. There may be good reasons to remove it anyway, but please don't claim that the status of RFC 1644 has anyting to do with it. -GAWollman
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