Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net> writes:
> > > 	- when userland process consumes ancillary data (via recvmsg)
> >When the process does the rcvmsg() is when you can re-pack, if necessary.
> 
> 	Chris basically suggested to avoid re-packing, and I agree re-packing
> 	is not a good thing.  I'm very very stuck here...

OK, i thought that you had an intermediate representation, rather than
packing into the right format directly in the networking protocol
stack code.

Indeed, in that case, you can't avoid repacking.



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