netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fix getsockname (ipv4/ipv6)

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Message-Id: <20090126.144207.210560647.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:42:07 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	fw@...len.de
Cc:	reumann.linux@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fix getsockname (ipv4/ipv6)

From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:37:33 +0100

> John Reumann <reumann.linux@...il.com> wrote:
> > This change will return ENOSPC if the return address provided by the caller of getsockname
> >  is not sufficiently large to hold the return value.
> 
> Those interfaces allow applications to query how large the sockaddr storage needs to
> be by checking *addrlen after a successful call.

Right.
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