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
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