linux-kernel - Re: AF_UNIX MSG

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Date:	Tue, 8 Jan 2008 22:53:59 +0000
From:	"Tom Spink" <tspink@...il.com>
To:	"Rick Jones" <rick.jones2@...com>
Cc:	"Brent Casavant" <bcasavan@....com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AF_UNIX MSG_PEEK bug?

On 08/01/2008, Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com> wrote:
> Potential bugs notwithstanding, given that this is a STREAM socket, and
> as such shouldn't (I hope, or I'm eating toes for dinner again) have
> side effects like tossing the rest of a datagram, why are you using
> MSG_PEEK?  Why not simply read the N bytes of the message that will have
> the message length with a normal read/recv, and then read that many
> bytes in the next call?
>
> rick jones
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Hi,

Where in the code is the message length being sent across the socket?

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Tom Spink
University of Edinburgh
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