Missing multicast source filter support functions (RFC 3678)

Bernhard Reutner-Fischer rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Wed Jan 22 21:04:30 UTC 2014


On 16 January 2014 20:47, Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I noticed that the multicast source filter support functions
> (described by [1]) aren't in uClibc.  It's "#if 0"'d out in
> include/netinet/in.h .  Was this a design decision or more of a case
> of "not-that-critical we'll get around to it later"?  If the latter,
> does anyone have any thoughts on how an implementation for uClibc
> ought to differ from glibc's?

The latter, nobody needed it until now.
But please wrap it into a config-knob with a descriptive help-text.
(and no, we do not want IPX/appletalk and just one packet-radio family)
thanks,
>
> [1] RFC 3678 "Socket Interface Extensions for Multicast Source
> Filters" http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3678.txt
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Gregory


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