From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Nov 19 6:45:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9848737B418; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 06:45:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.6/8.11.2) id fAJEjBj53702; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:45:11 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:45:11 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: tqbf@secnet.com, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/6296: IP_HDRINCL sockets force header fields to be in host byte order Message-ID: <20011119164511.H32927@sunbay.com> References: <200111162148.fAGLmrV50381@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200111162148.fAGLmrV50381@freefall.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 01:48:53PM -0800, bmah@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > Synopsis: IP_HDRINCL sockets force header fields to be in host byte order > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > State-Changed-By: bmah > State-Changed-When: Fri Nov 16 13:46:08 PST 2001 > State-Changed-Why: > I agree this is a bug, but it's a well-known one, one that's generally > expected when writing code for BSDs. As fenner pointed out, "fixing" > this would break binary compatability. > Actually, the ip_id field (if non-zero), should be supplied in network byte order. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message