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From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: rdenis@simphalempin.com, akpm@osdl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 7665] New: getsockopt(IPV6_*CAST_HOPS) returns -1
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:28:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4580384F.4070904@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061212.171121.21596915.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller wrote:
> I wonder, since the most accurate return value is tied to the route,
> what is expected of this getsockopt() before a socket's identity
> (and therefore route) is known?

A search for RTAX_HOPLIMIT found very little code that ever sets it, 
iproute2 was the only important one, so the interface/system default is 
probably the only one that's ever used.

-Brian

      reply	other threads:[~2006-12-13 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-11 17:56 Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 7665] New: getsockopt(IPV6_*CAST_HOPS) returns -1 Andrew Morton
2006-12-11 21:55 ` Brian Haley
2006-12-12  8:08   ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2006-12-12 21:16     ` Brian Haley
2006-12-12 22:38       ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2006-12-13  1:11       ` David Miller
2006-12-13 17:28         ` Brian Haley [this message]

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