Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: OOB handling | Date | Tue, 10 Nov 1998 02:41:16 +0000 (GMT) |
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> While porting a program to linux, I noticed strange thing with out-of-band > data handling. After looking at the kernel source, I found that only one > byte of OOB data can be handled on linux. Am I correct?
BSD compatibility. Its also 1 off the sequence number specified in the spec because BSD kind of overruled the internet into their behaviour on this one (its not as microsoft as it sounds - the history is sane)
Actually truth is nobody every really figured out a real use for urgent data or clarified the semantics. Linux and everything else I know its one byte of date 1 byte off from the notional spec
Alan
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