Re: OOB handling
Alexander V. Lukyanov (lav@yars.free.net)
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:45:47 +0300
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 02:41:16AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > While porting a program to linux, I noticed strange thing with out-of-band
> > data handling. After looking at the kernel source, I found that only one
> > byte of OOB data can be handled on linux. Am I correct?
>
> BSD compatibility. Its also 1 off the sequence number specified in the spec
> because BSD kind of overruled the internet into their behaviour on this one
> (its not as microsoft as it sounds - the history is sane)
>
> Actually truth is nobody every really figured out a real use for urgent
> data or clarified the semantics. Linux and everything else I know its
> one byte of date 1 byte off from the notional spec
Ok, thanks for answer. It is just unusual that one can send OOB packet,
but receive only one byte as OOB data.
Alexander.
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