netdev - Re: Possible bugfix for AF_UNIX, SOCK

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Date:	Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:16:18 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Piergiorgio Beruto <piergiorgio.beruto@...il.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible bugfix for AF_UNIX, SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets

Le mercredi 15 février 2012 à 18:36 +0100, Piergiorgio Beruto a écrit :
> Ok, I take the recvmsg( ... MSG_PEEK|MSG_TRUNC) *USUALLY* returns the
> size of the next packet (which would solve my problem without any ugly
> & deprecated ioctl) when passing a "too small buffer" but as you said
> AF_UNIX sockets do not implement this behavior...
> 
> Are you proposing to implement such patch in the kernel to fix this?
> Do you want me to test it?
> 

Yes please test it and I'll submit it.

Thanks


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