netdev - Re: Bug#966459: linux: traffic class socket options (both IPv4/IPv6) inconsistent with docs/standards

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.23.453.2008031733520.11571@tglase-nb.lan.tarent.de>
Date:   Mon, 3 Aug 2020 18:58:47 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@...ent.de>
To:     Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
cc:     966459@...s.debian.org, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#966459: linux: traffic class socket options (both IPv4/IPv6)
 inconsistent with docs/standards

Hi Ben,

> For what it's worth, FreeBSD/Darwin and Windows also put 4 bytes of
> data in a IPV6_TCLASS cmsg.  So whether or not it's "right", it's
> consistent between three independent implementations.

oh, thank you, I don’t have any of these systems around at the
moment, so checking them was tricky for me.

So basically I should read an int in host endianness then (or
keep the code I currently have that compares byte 0 and 3, using
the one that’s not 0, if any). Great, thank you!

After some minor porting work, it turns out that the current code
does work on MidnightBSD (equivalent to FreeBSD 10.4) for IPv6.
I guess I’ll keep ints then.

bye,
//mirabilos
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