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To: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart)
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Subject: Re: Apparent bug in sendto() with raw sockets 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 26 Jun 1998 06:04:38 PDT."
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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:58:18 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <E0ypYBC-0005Qv-00@oak67.doc.ic.ac.uk>you write:
>I think its more important to be correct in this area, raw sockets
>programming can be tricky enough without what will seem to the
>user like gratuitous changes.

Changing the interface from what it currently is is a gratuitous change.

  Bill

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