non-standard behavior of socket_recvfrom()

Hi, This may be an odd suggestion/request, and nothing in the line of what's currently hot around here (PHP 5.1 that is), but I'm making it anyway: The current behavior of socket_recvfrom() (/etc/sockets/socket.h) on a connection error, is that it frees the buffer (recv_buf), throws an error and returns from the function. I'd like to suggest that more correct behaviour would be to use the buffer before returning. As far as I know, even on failure, the buffer can be used to extract information on why the connection was refused. I came upon this while I was trying to implement a traceroute algorithm, which should be pretty simple, but seems impossible because of this socket behavior in PHP. The change in the code of socket_recvfrom() would be very minimal. I would suggest a patch myself, but the problems are that I don't know how and I don't know nearly enough about the PHP engine to write solid code for it (maybe I should work on that). Ron