Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 17:46:29 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proposed socket change (IPFW too? :) Message-ID: <199905300046.RAA12968@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 May 1999 10:19:56 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905291017010.88199-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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>On Sat, 29 May 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > >> > I'd like to propose a change in struct socket, which should increase its >> > functionality. It should first be noted that, along with my IPFW UID/GID >> > code (which would be nice to have merged into HEAD too, and if I must, I'll >> > clean up the ugly switch part), I included this change. Implementation time >> > would be nil, as would testing. >> >> no objection on the struct socket change (but i just wonder, if there >> are side effects in changing the struct socket, perhaps one might put >> the same parameter in the struct tcpcb/udpcb/inpcb ? after all it is >> being used by ipfw only). > >It's only truly associative with the socket itself, if you think about it. > I'd like to see >what David thinks about this change, since networking is seemingly 'his' > where IPFW is >'yours'. I don't have a problem with it in principle. You should get Garrett's opinion as well, though, as I might be missing something. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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