From owner-freebsd-net Tue Dec 15 13:21:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26900 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:21:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-out1.apple.com (mail-out1.apple.com [17.254.0.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26844 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:21:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from justin@scv4.apple.com) Received: from mailgate.apple.com (A17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out1.apple.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA21248 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:10:55 -0800 Received: from scv4.apple.com (scv4.apple.com) by mailgate.apple.com (mailgate.apple.com - SMTPRS 2.0.15) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:10:49 -0800 Received: from localhost (grinch.apple.com [17.202.43.163]) by scv4.apple.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA60630; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:10:30 -0800 Received: (from justin@localhost) by localhost (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA01441; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:02:51 -0800 Message-Id: <19981215130251.N652@apple.com> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:02:51 -0800 From: "Justin C. Walker" To: Bill Fenner Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MLEN < write length < MINCLSIZE "bug" Reply-To: justin@apple.com References: <19981215110600.D652@apple.com> <199812152105.NAA02831@mango.parc.xerox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199812152105.NAA02831@mango.parc.xerox.com>; from Bill Fenner on Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 01:05:30PM -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 01:05:30PM -0800, Bill Fenner wrote: > A flag saying "more to come" was one of the other ways that I > considered to fix this problem but never finished implementing. > In FreeBSD, the usrreq functions have been split out and the > individual functions accept flags, so in that case this flag can > be passed as an argument to pru_send(). This gets around the > requirement to set the flag before the call and reset it afterwards. Sounds like a good change; should we move to the 3.0 base, we'll probably use that mechanism instead of the 'so_state' hack. Regards, Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * Institute for General Semantics | Manager, CoreOS Networking | Men are from Earth. Apple Computer, Inc. | Women are from Earth. 2 Infinite Loop | Deal with it. Cupertino, CA 95014 | *---------------------------------------*------------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message