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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: bind and O_NONBLOCK
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:43:52 -0400
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On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 10:58:18PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:11:01 -0700
> 
> > There was no public mail.  I asked RH engineering for proposals for
> > changes to the POSIX spec and Alan replied.
> 
> Please do not discuss such proposals only privately, especially when
> the ramifications affect the entire community.
> 
> It is important the things get hashed out on a public forum where
> all networking developers can add their insight into the problem.

It was - about six years ago while netbeui/netbios merging was being
discussed. It got tagged then and finally ended up here.