Dan McDonald wrote:
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.
Ok, I've just installed a Solaris 10 Update 2 beta and that man page text
is not present on my box. Is your text from nevada? (btw, I checked the
man page before making the above comment and checked again upon
reading your comments and it isn't there.)
$ man -s 3xnet recvmsg 2>/dev/null | col -b | grep -i ancill | wc
0 0 0
Darren
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