netdev - Re: [iproute PATCH v2 2/2] ss: support closing inet sockets via SOCK

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Date:	Mon, 21 Dec 2015 21:42:22 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	zenczykowski@...il.com
Subject: Re: [iproute PATCH v2 2/2] ss: support closing inet sockets via
 SOCK_DESTROY.

On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 22:22:18 +0900
Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com> wrote:

> diff --git a/misc/ss.c b/misc/ss.c
> index 0dab32c..be70c41 100644
> --- a/misc/ss.c
> +++ b/misc/ss.c
> @@ -160,6 +160,9 @@ struct filter
>  	int states;
>  	int families;
>  	struct ssfilter *f;
> +	struct {
> +		__u8 kill:1;
> +	} action;
>  };
>  
>  stati

Please just make it a boolean or integer, not a structure wrapped around a bit field.
If you need to extend in the future then change it then. Please don't write code
based on speculative future additions.
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