Re: screwy kernel messages about (AF_INET,SOCK_PACKET,..) being obsolete
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 22 Jan 1998 15:09:42 +0000 (GMT)
> I have been looking at it in the context of Diald.
>
> This does not seem to be an exact substitute for (AF_INET,SOCK_PACKET,..)
> 1) It does not support ioctl(..., SIOCGIFADDR.\
That will be a bug then
> 2) Diald uses select to watch for input on the proxy port when the link
> is down.
> With SOCK_PACKET incoming packets trigger the select; with SOCK_RAW,
> they don't.
That would also be a bug
Alan