From owner-freebsd-net Thu Feb 28 23:46:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail.realtek.com.tw (ms1.realtek.com.tw [203.69.112.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 315D837B417 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:46:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from RTCN3848 ([172.20.33.135]) by mail.realtek.com.tw (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.8) with SMTP id 2002030115450185:5279 ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 15:45:01 +0800 Message-ID: <001301c1c0f6$1e517ff0$872114ac@RTCN3848> From: "cfliu" To: Subject: Is recv/sendmsg important for AF_INET only sockets? Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 15:53:04 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on ms1/Realtek(Release 5.0.8 |June 18, 2001) at 03/01/2002 03:45:01 PM, Serialize by Router on ms1/Realtek(Release 5.0.8 |June 18, 2001) at 03/01/2002 03:45:09 PM, Serialize complete at 03/01/2002 03:45:09 PM Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0010_01C1C139.2C63F710" Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0010_01C1C139.2C63F710 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="big5" Hi, I am implementing a small BSD socket layer which supports only the = AF_INET family. I am wondering whether recvmsg() and sendmsg() calls are = required for the INET protocol family. I don't know if I should = implemented it or not. I have looked up some open source projects and = grepped for recvmsg and sendmsg calls but couldn't find any. How often = do people use recvmsg/sendmsg() calls (also readv()/writev()) in their = BSD socket based Internet applications? Is it safe NOT to implement = these functions for a INET socket? Thanks. ------=_NextPart_000_0010_01C1C139.2C63F710 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="big5"
Hi, I am implementing a small BSD socket layer=20 which supports only the AF_INET family. I am wondering whether = recvmsg()=20 and sendmsg() calls are required for the INET protocol family. I don't = know if I=20 should implemented it or not. I have looked up some open source projects = and=20 grepped for recvmsg and sendmsg calls but couldn't find any.   = How=20 often do people use recvmsg/sendmsg() calls (also readv()/writev()) in = their BSD=20 socket based Internet applications? Is it safe NOT to implement these = functions=20 for a INET socket?
 
Thanks.
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