On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:47:41PM +0100, Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: >I personally don't find this especially beautiful, and generally, as there is >a getsockopt(SO_TYPE), I'd have thought the above should look (somewhat) >similar to the following: > >int opt; >socklen_t optlen = sizeof(opt); > >getsockopt(fd,SOL_SOCKET,SO_DOMAIN,&opt,&optlen);
Unfortunately and unlike the socket type returned by SO_TYPE, the protocol family does not seem to be readily available within the struct socket. Having had a rummage around in the socket structure, it's not obvious how to implement this in a protocol-independent way. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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