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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk
Cc: yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPV6_PKTINFO socket option
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:02:48 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070808.150248.124083797.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708081216.51283@strip-the-willow>

From: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 12:16:51 +0100

>  2. On sparc64 with the same kernel IPV6_PKTINFO works without problems, even pulls
>     out the cmsg fields correctly. Conversely, when trying to set the IPV6_RECVPKTINFO
>     sticky option on the socket, no cmsg fields are generated. 
>     The kernel is of the same date and revision as the i386 kernel - library issue ???
>     It is very annoying, since the application needs to run on both architectures.

Almost certainly a compat layer bug in the kernel, it would
affect 32-bit applications on powerpc64 and similar if so.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-08-08 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-08 11:16 IPV6_PKTINFO socket option Gerrit Renker
2007-08-08 22:02 ` David Miller [this message]

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