From: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:56:16 +0100

> I just checked all arches and only sparc{64} have this strange
> SO_XXXX values not linear. I wonder why this layout was chosen ?

A lot of the API bogosity in the sparc userspace APIs comes from the
fact that we mirrored the SunOS values at the beginning of the port
and we're kind of stuck with that bad decision. :)
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