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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:46:07 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, wpaul@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Control messages.
Message-ID:  <20010328094607.A92096@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <200103280835.aa82064@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>; from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:34:53AM %2B0100
References:  <200103271641.f2RGfJL00975@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <200103280835.aa82064@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>

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On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:34:53AM +0100, David Malone wrote:

> I've had a look at what other people have done about this issue.
> The NetBSD people seem to have taken the fix I'm proposing. Solaris
> and BSD/OS don't provide the required alignment and just define
> CMSG_DATA(cm) to be (cm+1).

Actually - I had only looked at the BSD/OS 4.1 and smp-ng sources.
Someone pointed out to me that in 4.2 they do align the data. I'm
not sure what kernel changes they made corrisponding to this change
though. Maybe someone with access to BSD/OS 4.2 kernel sources
could have a look and see.

	David.

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