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Message-ID: <7b9198260801081453s198af7efycc7c35668c65eaf1@mail.gmail.com>
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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