Re: IPV6 RFC3542 compliance [PATCH]

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article 
<OF9F62ECDB.67FFA191-ON88257019.001F5EA8-88257019.00234AB6@xxxxxxxxxx> (at Mon, 
6 Jun 2005 23:25:28 -0700), David Stevens <dlstevens@xxxxxxxxxx> says:

> And those same binaries would not work when recompiled,
> because the option names in the source would match the
> new numbers, but still have the old arguments-- an error to
> be detected at run-time, only.

It is not good at all to break API at this moment (2.6.x).

Portable applications do like this:

#ifdef IPV6_RECVHOPOPTS
   // RFC2292bis
#else
   // RFC2292
#endif

--yoshfuji