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From: Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Initial SCTP support for the upcoming 1.6.5 release
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:57:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <94FD6DA0-F27E-11D8-9417-000D932C78D8@lurchi.franken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87llgabohv.fsf@zip.com.au>

Kevin,

see my comments in-line.

Best regards
Michael

On Aug 20, 2004, at 3:13 AM, Kevin Ryde wrote:

> Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de> writes:
>>
>> The argument, to use a function like getprotobyname
>> to perform a lookup in /etc/protocols, is not valid in my opinion.
>> The reason is, that besides I have not seen that, that  the
>> constants above are defined in /usr/include/netinet/in.h and
>> are used.
>
> I don't want to go against the advice of the GNU/Linux man page.  It's
> pretty explicit.
You are not going against it. You are not using them. You are only
providing constants available in /usr/include/netinet/in.h to
the guile user.
>
>> So if, a system (I do not know of any such system),
>> uses a different number for TCP, this number will not only be in
>> /etc/protocols, but also in /usr/include/netinet/in.h. A different
>> story are port numbers. They can (and should) be looked up in
>> /etc/services.
>> There are no constants describing the port number for an echo  
>> server...
>
> Well I guess both protocol and service numbers for standard stuff are
> constants.  I don't know why one reads a file instead of just putting
> numbers in a program.  Maybe it dates right back to a time when such
> things were still in flux.  Or maybe the theory is to avoid numbers
> hard coded in programs (though strings hard coded aren't much better
> :-).
You are right, both port numbers and protocol numbers are kind of
standardized. But there is two differences:
Normally a user of a program does not specify the transport protocol,
but the port (telnet 127.0.0.1 echo, for example). That is why you
need a translation service for these service names.
The second is that there are no predefined constants for port numbers
available on a system like it is for protocols.
I agree with the man page that it is bad to use
s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 132);
It should be
s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_SCTP);
because you are not using a number, you are using a constant.

So what is the difference if you use getprotocolbyname? You can move
the binaries to a different host which uses different numbers?
I have not seen that and I'm pretty sure that this is not in tune
with the socket() call.

BTW, for UDP and TCP the calls
s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM,  0);
s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
are used as acronyms for
s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM,  IPPROTO_UDP);
s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);

So I think the man page and reality match no pretty good for these  
things,
but the man page seems to be pretty old (1995, on
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi? 
query=protocols&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Red+Hat+Linux%2Fi386+9&forma 
t=html

Best regards
Michael

PS.: The usage of the third arg of the socket() call is the one  
described
      in the 3rd edition of Unix Network Programming, so I guess that  
some
      people will try to use it that way...




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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-20  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-10 18:26 Initial SCTP support for the upcoming 1.6.5 release Michael Tuexen
2004-08-11 12:29 ` Michael Tuexen
2004-08-13 13:40   ` Marius Vollmer
2004-08-13 20:27     ` Michael Tuexen
2004-08-24 14:15       ` Marius Vollmer
2004-08-24 17:35         ` Michael Tuexen
2004-09-08 15:03           ` Marius Vollmer
2004-09-08 15:34             ` Michael Tuexen
2004-08-14  9:59     ` Michael Tuexen
2004-08-16  0:40       ` Kevin Ryde
2004-08-16 10:42         ` Michael Tuexen
2004-08-17 23:46           ` Kevin Ryde
2004-08-19 18:34             ` Michael Tuexen
2004-08-20  1:13               ` Kevin Ryde
2004-08-20  7:57                 ` Michael Tuexen [this message]
2004-08-16 17:02       ` Michael Tuexen
2004-08-16 18:44         ` Rob Browning
2004-08-20 18:18           ` Michael Tuexen
2004-08-23  0:58             ` Kevin Ryde
2004-08-23 19:54               ` Michael Tuexen
2004-08-24  0:57                 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-08-24 11:27                   ` Michael Tuexen
2004-08-24 12:46                     ` Michael Tuexen
2004-08-24 14:24                       ` Marius Vollmer
2004-08-24 18:22                         ` Michael Tuexen

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