Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:45:47 +0300 | From | "Alexander V. Lukyanov" <> | Subject | Re: OOB handling |
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On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 02:41:16AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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
Ok, thanks for answer. It is just unusual that one can send OOB packet, but receive only one byte as OOB data.
Alexander.
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