On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 06:44:51AM -0700, Darren Reed wrote: > James Carlson wrote: > > >Darren Reed writes: > > > >>I never even knew about 3XNET...why would I want it? > >> > > > >Ancillary data doesn't work in 3SOCKET. It does in 3XNET. That's the > >big reason. > > > > Ok, so there are no compelling reasons to use 3XNET unless someone > needs to interact with ancillary data (whatever that is - there > are no man page references to this on sendmsg/recvmsg.) So my
man -s 3xnet recvmsg Ancillary data usage is currently in some IPv6 apps. An advanced IPsec API that lets unconnected datagram sockets receive IPsec policy information (the moral equivalent of IPSEC_IN or whatever better mechanism which replaces it) would probably also use the XNET recvmsg. Dan _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
