On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 09:06:19AM +0000, David Laight wrote: > > > The comment still applies, though. (re the duplication) > > > > Where do you see duplication? > > The whole thing just doesn't scale. > > As soon as you get to the slightly more complex requests > like SCTP_INITMSG (which should probably be called to > set the required number of data streams) you've either > got replicated code or nested wrappers. None of that is relevant to setting the nodelay option. If you actually read through the series you'd say that whenever there was non-trivial logic it is shared with getopt. However sharing just for purpose of sharing doesn't make sense, so where the kernel API ended up just setting a flag after taking the sock lock I did not opt for it.
