From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jun 25 15:08:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA07554 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:08:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (omega.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA07508; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:07:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fenner@parc.xerox.com) Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <40744(1)>; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:07:06 PDT Received: from localhost by crevenia.parc.xerox.com with SMTP id <177515>; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:06:59 -0700 To: Nate Lawson cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner), julian@whistle.com, nate@elite.net, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apparent bug in sendto() with raw sockets In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Jun 98 14:29:18 PDT." <199806252129.OAA24992@almond.elite.net> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:06:52 PDT From: Bill Fenner Message-Id: <98Jun25.150659pdt.177515@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <199806252129.OAA24992@almond.elite.net> Nate Lawson wrote: >Since traceroute ships as a standard utility with FreeBSD, couldn't the >change to network byte order be done simultaneously, minimizing headaches? The standard utilities could be changed easily. I'm worried about compatibility with externally-written programs; e.g. the binary-only "pathchar" from LBL would become useless on an OS with this change. Externally-written programs that are written to the well known BSD raw socket interface would all have to be patched to work with an updated system, as well. (For example, LBL's traceroute program.) Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message