From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 28 0:46:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C6D337B718; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 00:46:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 28 Mar 2001 09:46:14 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:46:07 +0100 From: David Malone To: Brian Somers Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, wpaul@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Control messages. Message-ID: <20010328094607.A92096@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <200103271641.f2RGfJL00975@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <200103280835.aa82064@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103280835.aa82064@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>; from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:34:53AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message