From: Vlad Yasevich > On 06/17/2014 11:36 AM, David Laight wrote: > > From: Of Geir Ola Vaagland > >> These patches are part of my master thesis project. I have been searching for discrepancies between > >> the socket API specificiation in RFC 6458 and the current Linux SCTP implementation. The following > >> patches are my humble attempts at getting somewhat closer to compliancy. > > > > I've just been reading RFC 6458 - HTF did it get past the editors and > > then published in its current form? > > Lots of the structures have implied padding. ... > I've argued the padding issue, but the editor stance is that it's implementation > dependent. It wouldn't be as bad if the RFC said that the structure contained the fields that followed (as is typical of the posix definitions), but instead it gives a definition of the structure. That isn't implementation friendly at all. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
