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Re: Using CMSG_NXTHDR to construct ancillary data lists


On 12/07/2016 11:33 AM, Alexander Monakov wrote:
This was previously raised as PR 13500:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13500

Thanks, I knew I saw it somewhere before.

The arguments based on historic RFCs are not quite convincing. A note in Stevens says that not all systems support multiple ancillary messages per control block, and those RFCs are unlikely to mandate adding such support.

Florian


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