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Cc: Randall Stewart <rrs@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org,
	Andre Oppermann <andre@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/net Makefile.inc sctp_sys_calls.c
 src/sys/sys param.h
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Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>
> i think Andre's question was this:
> normally we use {set|get}sockopt() to configure the socket
> as desired for special features (e.g. multicast is one).
>
>   
It already does. These are wrappers, not actual syscalls.
> Why is it undesirable to use the same kind of overloading
> for sctp ?

An API is specified for SCTP already. Being forced to shoehorn all 
possible semantics into a getsockopt()/setsockopt() call *sucks* for 
serious work.

Regards,
BMS