Subject: Re: Proposal: socketfrom()
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/05/2007 09:46:46
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>>>>> "der" == der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> writes:
    der> I don't like Greg Woods's idea of having process-default socket
    der> options, because I much prefer to have some way to name this
    der> collection of options, rather than having just one set of
    der> default options for a whole process.  Using a socket on which

  I agree with you.

  Having said that, the ability to make some template socket the
default, and to be able to inheirit that would be cool. That would
permit an entire tree of processes to be setup to make connections from
a particular IP on a multihomed host.

  So, I think that Thor's proposal makes a good step, which can be
extended later to do something more sophisticated.

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