[openbeosnetteam] Re: Thoughts about domains/families and so on...

> > This gets us a UDP socket. Question is when we call socket we don't 
> > specify
> > the exact protocol, which is what we've been keying off so far. So, 
> > are
> > people happy that we add a couple more fields to the net_module 
> > structure
> > that we use to store the extra details?
> > 
> > Specifically,
> > 
> > pr_type = SOCK_[STREAM|DGRAM|RAW]
> > pr_protocol = IPPROTO_[UDP|TCP|RAW|ICMP|IGMP] | 0 (IP)
> > 
> > Then we need a function that will find the module that deals with a
> > particular combination...but that can just walk a list so I'm not 
> > worried
> > about that.
> > 
> > Anyone any thougts? I ask as this is needed for the sockets stuff :)
> 
> AFAICT it looks fine to me - if it won't be enough in the future, we 
> could always change that part (though I can't see right now why we 
> should).
> Actually, I think it's a good idea that a module knows something about 
> its role.

Glad you said that as I added it this morning :)

david

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