On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> BTW, the simmetry between getsockopt/setsockopt further bias how
> SIOCPUSH doesn't fit into the setsockopt options but it fits very well
> into the ioctl categorty instead. There's simply no state one can
> return via getsockopt for the SIOCPUSH functionality. It's not setting
> any option, it's just doing one thing that controls the I/O.

you convinced me. I guess i was just distracted by the common wisdom:
'ioctls are a hack'. But SIOCPUSH *IS* an 'IO control' after all :-)

	Ingo

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