Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
Em Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 11:23:16AM -0700, David Miller escreveu:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:41:14 +0200
When a socket is created it is sometime useful to store a specific information
for this socket.
This information can be for examples:
* a creation time
* a pid
* a uid/gid
* a container identifier
* a pointer to a more specific structure
* ...
The following patch is a proposition to add a private anonymous pointer
field to the common part of the sock structure.
We got rid of the private field a long time ago because not only
is it not needed, it tends to get abused.
Nah, it still there, sk_protinfo, its just ax25 that uses it
(nudge(Ralf)). How do we state that a struct field is deprecated and
will be removed soon(tm)?
There is another, sk_user_data, that is used only by the rpc, pppol2tp,
iscsi, ncpfs, smbfs and dlm guys, see? We need a deprecate flag for
sk_protinfo, if not people will use it! :-)
Thank you for your feedbacks. I will play with the sk_user_data.
Is there a chance to have this field in the timewait sockets ? :)
Regards
--Daniel
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