netdev - Re: AF_UNIX MSG

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Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:36:23 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Brent Casavant <bcasavan@....com>
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AF_UNIX MSG_PEEK bug?

> and the parallel portions/comments in unix_dgram_recvmsg(),
> it looks like there's been a lot of uncertainty as to how
> file descriptor passing should be handled durning MSG_PEEK
> operations.  To quote:

The specs basically don't answer the question. What is critical is that
the behaviour does not change compared with older Linux releases.

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