From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: setsockopt option struct with an address? Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:30:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20091001.133011.43582402.davem@davemloft.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: andy.grover@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:58593 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751287AbZJAU3v (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2009 16:29:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Andrew Grover Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 13:17:03 -0700 > Or should the added member be a struct sockaddr, or a sockaddr_in, or > a sockaddr_storage, or what? And should it be a pointer to that > struct, or embedded? You probably should use sockaddr_storage, I mean you will want to support ipv6 at some point right? :-)