Re: route(8) and old messages

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Aug 17, 10:16am, roy%marples.name@localhost (Roy Marples) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: route(8) and old messages

| On 17/08/2018 09:36, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > | If there is anything better we can do long term, I'm sure out of ideas
| > | right now.
| > 
| > Looks like the way that we are evolving the routing socket API is very
| > expensive and error prone. If we designed the individual messages differently
| > (so that they could be extended at the end) perhaps it would be cheaper
| > to fix in the future.
| 
| The big problem here is that we have a sockaddr area at the end of most 
| messages which is of undeterminate size. Do we really want to add more 
| complexity to say "last N bytes is this new thing"?

We could add the offset to the sockaddr area...
That would make the size before it variable.

christos