In message <E1BSQrJ-0002En-00@smeg.dsg.stanford.edu>,
Jonathan Stone writes:

>
>All I meant by ``nobody really knows'' is that the acutal dynamic
>invariants on which values get used beneath any given socket-level
>(sosend, soreceive, socreate, etc) are not docmented.  Those
>invariants also get willy-nilly without discussion here on tech-kern,
                    ^ get changed willy-nilly

>in ways which might be seen as pulling in different directions.