> However, it is in fact a special problem for SCTP.  For all of the
 > previous protocols, you could just do SO_TYPE and you'd know the right
 > answer, because there was only one SOCK_STREAM or SOCK_DGRAM transport
 > protocol.  Now there isn't.

True, though most of us would've winced if we saw code doing that sort of
mapping even prior to SCTP -- it's inherently fragile and defeats the
intended abstraction.

-- 
meem
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