Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 22:23:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
> Please no, the whole point of the sock_no_*() stuff was to _REMOVE_
> the tests from the socket.c code.
OK, what about the following:
a) ->fcntl() is _always_ sock_no_fcntl().
I think this can safely die. It is true even in 2.2.x
b) ->socketpair() is nontrivial only for AF_UNIX.
Some other protocol someday may want to use it too.
It has to stay.
c) ->mmap() is nontrivial only for AF_PACKET and I'm not
too happy about its abuse there.
Some day it may be fun to mmap tcp sockets. It has to stay.
[patch being tested right now; the question being whether we want to keep
->fcntl() or not]
I think we don't want to keep it.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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