netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: implement a SO

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Date:	Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:28:49 +0300
From:	"Rémi Denis-Courmont" 
	<remi.denis-courmont@...ia.com>
To:	ext Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: implement a SO_PROTOCOL getsockoption

On Wednesday 05 August 2009 11:45:29 ext Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Wednesday 2009-08-05 08:35, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> >On Tuesday 04 August 2009 20:28:28 ext Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> Similar to SO_TYPE returning the socket type, SO_PROTOCOL allows to
> >> retrieve the protocol used with a given socket.
> >
> >You can easily infer the protocol family from the address family from
> >getsockname().
>
> As far as I remember, what you can get from getsockname is the
> domain type (AF_*/PF_*) through struct sockaddr->sa_family.
> Did you mean that?

Yes. It's almost like SO_DOMAIN but more portable and uglier.

> Though SO_PROTOCOL and SO_DOMAIN go nicely along with SO_TYPE.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
Nokia Devices R&D, Maemo Software, Helsinki

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