Subject: Re: Proposal: socketfrom()
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/05/2007 12:19:15
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>>>>> "Darren" == Darren Reed <darrenr@netbsd.org> writes:
    Darren> Another reason that I prefer this approach because it is easier to
    Darren> learn or adapt to use.  Also when reading new code, someone is
    Darren> confronted with a "wtf is this socket option" rather than "wtf is
    Darren> this socketfrom" and goes looking for socketfrom() in your
    Darren> app because 
    Darren> it isn't a widely known system call.

  I've always found documentation for socket options to be very hard to
find.

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