Re: Why do sendmmsg and recvmmsg take unsigned int flags?

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost (Robert Elz) writes:

>One could argue that the mm functions shouldn't have a flags arg in
>their func protoptyes at all, as they are dealing with a sequence of
>messages, each of which has a flags field in its msghdr, which really
>should be all that is needed.

Sort of, not all flags are per packet.
On the other hand, the kernel code is broken regarding the flags.
Fortunately nobody is using it.