for tcp timestamp control messages, new in linux commit
1c885808e45601b2b6f68b30ac1d999e10b6f606
and export time measurements via tcp_info, added in linux commit
efd90174167530c67a54273fd5d8369c87f9bd32
placing the opening brace on the same line as the struct keyword/tag
is the style I prefer and seems to be the prevailing practice in more
recent additions.
these changes were generated by the command:
find include/ arch/*/bits -name '*.h' \
-exec sed -i '/^struct [^;{]*$/{N;s/\n/ /;}' {} +
and subsequently checked by hand to ensure that the regex did not pick
up any false positives.
new fields and associated linux commit:
tcpi_notsent_bytes, tcpi_min_rtt cd9b266095f422267bddbec88f9098b48ea548fc
tcpi_data_segs_in, tcpi_data_segs_out a44d6eacdaf56f74fad699af7f4925a5f5ac0e7f
TCP_CC_INFO is a new socket option to get congestion control info without
netlink (union tcp_cc_info is in linux/inet_diag.h kernel header).
linux commit 6e9250f59ef9efb932c84850cd221f22c2a03c4a
TCP_SAVE_SYN, TCP_SAVED_SYN socket options are for saving and getting the
SYN headers of passive connections in a server application.
linux commit cd8ae85299d54155702a56811b2e035e63064d3d
Add new tcpi_* fields to struct tcp_info implementing RFC4898 counters.
linux commit 2efd055c53c06b7e89c167c98069bab9afce7e59
Programs such as iptables depend on these constants, which can also
be found defined in other libcs.
Since only TCP_* is reserved as part of tcp.h's namespace, we hide
them behind _BSD_SOURCE (and therefore _DEFAULT_SOURCE) to expose
them by default, but keep it standard conforming.
there are two versions of this structure: the BSD version and the GNU
version. previously only the GNU version was supported. the only way
to support both simultaneously is with an anonymous union, which was a
nonstandard extension prior to C11, so some effort is made to avoid
breakage with compilers which do not support anonymous unions.
this commit is based on a patch by Timo Teräs, but with some changes.
in particular, the GNU version of the structure is not exposed unless
_GNU_SOURCE is defined; this both avoids namespace pollution and
dependency on anonymous unions in the default feature profile.
the BSD and GNU versions of this structure differ, so exposing it in
the default _BSD_SOURCE profile is possibly problematic. both versions
could be simultaneously supported with anonymous unions if needed in
the future, but for now, just omitting it except under _GNU_SOURCE
should be safe.
alternatively, we could define it in sys/socket.h since SO* is
reserved there, and tcp.h includes sys/socket.h in extensions mode.
note that SOL_TCP is simply wrong and it's only here for compatibility
with broken applications. the correct argument to pass for setting TCP
socket options is IPPROTO_TCP, which of course has the same value as
SOL_TCP but works everywhere.
the old behavior of exposing nothing except plain ISO C can be
obtained by defining __STRICT_ANSI__ or using a compiler option (such
as -std=c99) that predefines it. the new default featureset is POSIX
with XSI plus _BSD_SOURCE. any explicit feature test macros will
inhibit the default.
installation docs have also been updated to reflect this change.
Szabolcs Nagy
Rich Felker
Kylie McClain
Timo Teräs
rofl0r