> 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
Since nothing uses this, can we not just make something more sane
(ie. you get all the OOB data, not just one byte) and hide the old
behaviour behind SO_BSDCOMPAT?
-cw
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