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Date:      Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:37:23 PDT
From:      Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To:        fenner@parc.xerox.com, njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com, nate@almond.elite.net
Subject:   Re: Apparent bug in sendto() with raw sockets
Message-ID:  <98Jun26.103725pdt.177515@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>

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>The convention of using network byte order is sufficient imho

If we were designing this interface from scratch, I'd say you were right.
However, what we're really doing is changing a 9 year old poorly-designed
interface.  Changing an interface that has been in existence and use for
9 years in a completely incompatible way requires some care.

  Bill

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