linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sctp: implement SIOCINQ ioctl()

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Date:	Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:44:41 +0200
From:	Diego Elio “Flameeyes” Pettenò <flameeyes@...il.com>
To:	Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: implement SIOCINQ ioctl()

Il giorno gio, 24/06/2010 alle 09.40 -0400, Vlad Yasevich ha scritto:
> You don't call accept() on an SCTP SEQPACKET socket.  You can just
> read from it.

Okay I guess I'll send a patch to the man page to fix that then.

> This way, you'll ignore listening SOCK_STREAM sockets which will not
> have any
> data anyway, but you'll check out listening SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets
> that may have
> data waiting on them. 

Ah I think I see what you mean here: SIOCINQ would work for TCP-style
ESTABLISHED sockets _and_ SEQPACKET LISTENING sockets, right?

Will send the updated patch in a moment.

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