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Date:      Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:52:31 +0200
From:      Vincent Jardin <vjardin@wanadoo.fr>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Netgraph, meta and socket PF_NG
Message-ID:  <200307242052.31081.vjardin@wanadoo.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0307241123150.36615-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0307241123150.36615-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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Le Jeudi 24 Juillet 2003 20:26, Julian Elischer a =E9crit :
> you are correct
>
> My plan was to use the metadata part of recvmesg()
> to transfer metadata but never implemented it and it has not been
> needed.
> I suggest that you write a very simple node (start with ng_sample.c)
> that converts metadata to a 'header' prepends it to the data
> and then pass that up.

I though about it, however I would like to avoid this case that is not en=
ough=20
generic.

> Alternatively you could look at implementing the recvmesg()
> metadata transfer.

However I am not a Unix socket expert ;-( I'll look how it can be done.

Thanks,
  Vincent



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