From: Peter Anvin
> Sent: 02 September 2015 21:16
> On 09/02/2015 02:48 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >
> > Should all other architectures follow suit?
> > Or should we follow the s390 approach:
> >
> 
> It is up to the maintainer(s), largely dependent on how likely you are
> going to want to support this in your libc, but in general, socketcall
> is an abomination which there is no reason not to bypass.

The other (worse) abomination is the way SCTP overloads setsockopt()
to perform actions that change state.
Rather unfortunately that got documented in the protocol standard :-(

        David

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