Re: socket in linux

To: yaoyyuan@263.net
Subject: Re: socket in linux
From: Leigh Stoller <stoller@fast.cs.utah.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 07:26:30 -0700
Cc: oskit-users@cs.utah.edu
Sender: owner-oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu

> From: yaoyyuan@263.net
> Subject: socket in linux
> 
> I have a question in oskit.
> I want to use SOCK_PACKET which defined in linix/socket.h .It is used in
> the socket function only in Linux. But in oskit the oskit/net/socket.h is
> from BSD and no such definition.It has only SOCK_STREAM ,SOCK_RAW ,etc
> definition .  So how can I use it?

I think the short answer is that you cannot. The OSKIT uses the Linux
device drivers, but FreeBSD networking, which does not implement that.

As an aside, what is SOCK_PACKET? Kinda looks like SOCK_RAW to me, but I'm
not sure what the differences are. 

Lbs

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