netdev - Re: IPV6: make ipv6_getsockopt_sticky honor user's buffer size

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Message-Id: <20070308.171150.38709664.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:11:50 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Cc:	chrisw@...s-sol.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPV6: make ipv6_getsockopt_sticky honor user's buffer size

From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:49:32 +0900 (JST)

> We should give truncated result and return full length
> from the POSIX POV.

True, and the user would know what happened because it
knows both the original length it gave and the larger
one the kernel gave as the return value.
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