Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:02:43 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: iedowse@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: pb@hert.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/21737: sendto returns systematically EINVAL with HDRINCL raw socks. Message-ID: <20011119170243.J32927@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <200111171526.fAHFQKD44455@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200111171526.fAHFQKD44455@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 07:26:20AM -0800, iedowse@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > Synopsis: sendto returns systematically EINVAL with HDRINCL raw socks. > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > State-Changed-By: iedowse > State-Changed-When: Sat Nov 17 07:23:42 PST 2001 > State-Changed-Why: > > Unfortunately this unexpected byte-swapping of IP_HDRINCL fields > is something FreeBSD has done for a long time, and fixing it > would break binary compatibility with existing applications. > Even from BSD times, with one exception -- the ip_id (if non-zero) must 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
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