Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 09:00:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: kern/6296: IP_HDRINCL sockets force header fields to be in host byte order Message-ID: <199804141600.JAA07967@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/6296; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: tqbf@secnet.com Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/6296: IP_HDRINCL sockets force header fields to be in host byte order Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 08:50:34 PDT This is a backwards-compatibility issue; it has been this way since 4.3-Reno when IP_HDRINCL was introduced (or before, if you count the patches that Van distributed with traceroute). I'd be worried about backwards compatibility when making this change (for example, Van's "pathchar" utility is only available as a binary...). It might make sense to rename the current IP_HDRINCL and create a new one with new semantics. Bill (P.S. At least it's not Solaris, where you have to know that you put the transport length into the transport checksum field and the kernel computes the transport checksum!...) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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