On Aug 17, 10:16am, r...@marples.name (Roy Marples) wrote: -- Subject: Re: route(8) and old messages
| On 17/08/2018 09:36, Christos Zoulas wrote: | > | If there is anything better we can do long term, I'm sure out of ideas | > | right now. | > | > Looks like the way that we are evolving the routing socket API is very | > expensive and error prone. If we designed the individual messages differently | > (so that they could be extended at the end) perhaps it would be cheaper | > to fix in the future. | | The big problem here is that we have a sockaddr area at the end of most | messages which is of undeterminate size. Do we really want to add more | complexity to say "last N bytes is this new thing"? We could add the offset to the sockaddr area... That would make the size before it variable. christos
