Re: [lwip-users] sockopt inheritance?

[Kieran Mansley]

On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 09:19 +0200, Fabian Koch wrote:
> 
> Hey all, 
> 
> I was wondering if a Socket that is returned by accept() (or a netconn
> by netconn_accept() which I use) does inherit all the sockopts that
> were set for the listeninge/accept Socket? 
> I tried to follow the code but what I found looked like it returns a
> newly allocated netconn/socket with the default options, so one would
> have to set all opts again for that one? 

I'm not sure but that is what I would expect.  It should be easy to
test.

> Do I have to getsockopt from the listening socket and setsockopt on
> the one that accept() returns by hand each time? 

That would be a simple solution.

> Also, google didn't help me in any way how the behavior is with
> "standard" BSD sockets or their implementation on different
> platforms. 

I'm not sure about the standard behaviour either, but I can see why it
might be useful to have different options on the listening and data
sockets.

Kieran