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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>
To: "Adam Langley" <agl@imperialviolet.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] TCP: Add seq and ack numbers to TCP_INFO
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:49:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080709104934.390cd81b@speedy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <396556a20805301217k293e5718h6bbf02bfe069003@europa>

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:23:43 -0700
"Adam Langley" <agl@imperialviolet.org> wrote:

> TCP: Add seq and ack numbers to TCP_INFO
> 
> No ABI breakage: Userspace specifies the size of the structure that they're
> expecting, and the new fields are at the end, so existing code should function
> just fine as we'll truncate the new struct tcp_info to fit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adam Langley <agl@imperialviolet.org>

Of what possible use is this to an application? I worry that applications would
come to expect or use certain characteristics of the network and TCP which
would be broken by later changes.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-09 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-09 17:23 [PATCH] TCP: Add seq and ack numbers to TCP_INFO Adam Langley
2008-07-09 17:49 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2008-07-09 18:02   ` Adam Langley

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