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Message-ID: <m2wqy6jrne.fsf@firstfloor.org> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:47:01 -0700 From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> To: Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, "netdev\@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sockopt: Change getsockopt() of SO_BINDTODEVICE to return an interface name Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com> writes: > Instead of having the getsockopt() of SO_BINDTODEVICE return an index, which > will then require another call like if_indextoname() to get the actual interface > name, have it return the name directly. > > This also matches the existing man page description on socket(7) which mentions > the argument being an interface name. > > If the value has not been set, zero is returned and optlen will be set to zero > to indicate there is no interface name present. That will break all existing programs using the return value, right? Better to fix the manpage -Andi -- ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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