Peter Memishian writes:
> 
>  > >  And I
>  > > think SO_PROTOTYPE for raw socket is not widely supported.
>  > 
>  > Just the same, I see no valid reason that we should _not_ support
>  > SO_PROTOTYPE (a SOL_SOCKET option) on all socket types.  It's clearly
>  > applicable.
> 
> Do we officially support it on any socket type?  I don't see any mention
> of it in getsockopt(3SOCKET) or getsockopt(3XNET).

I'd call the lack of documentation part of the bug.

It seems like a completely obvious and quite useful feature -- one
that even if ksh93 didn't need, we would already need to make pfiles
work better.  I'm not sure why any current "official support" would be
a significant part of the equation.

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