Re: IPV6_USEMTU socket option

[Erik Nordmark]

> => I agree, it should be a library function (still in advanced API
> but not as a getsockopt()).
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> PS: on some systems getsockopt() is not supposed to have an argument
> (ie. optval points only to a buffer for the result) then be careful.

Good point. getsockopt only does a copyout from the kernel.

Do you have a proposal for a name of a function which retrieves the
path MTU for a destination/path?

   Erik

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