The following reply was made to PR kern/177362; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mark Andrews <[email protected]>
To: Michael Tuexen <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: kern/177362: [netinet] [patch] Wrong control used to return TOS
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:54:06 +1100

 In message <[email protected]>, Michael Tuexen w
 rites:
 > It was not done by accident. The returned cmsg_type is IP_RECVTOS instead 
 > of IP_TOS to keep it consistent with the handling of the IP_RECVTTL socket 
 > option.
 > I found it more important to be consistent within the same protocol family
 > than across different ones.
 > I think that unfortunately IP_RECVTOS is not defined in any standard.
 > 
 > Best regards
 > Michael
 
 And Linux uses IP_TOS to return the value.
 
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