Re: Buffer size question

[Ed Maste <emaste () phaedrus sandvine ca>]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 04:37:41PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:

> Including such an argument at the time the new API is introduced  
> obviously doesn't introduce compatibility issues for that API. :-)   
> (I'm actually thinking of an attribute/value list for various open  
> options in the API, so that additional "arguments" can be introduced as  
> desired without requiring API changes.)

I think that's a great idea.  The promisc option could then use the
same method.  Bruce Simpson posted (here and to freebsd-net) a patch to 
add an ioctl to control timestamp behaviour which would also be
nicely handled with an attribute/value list scheme.

Ed Maste
Sandvine Inc.

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