netdev - Re: recv(2), MSG_TRUNK and kernels older than 2.6.22

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Date:	Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:08:26 +0100
From:	Roy Marples <roy@...ples.name>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: recv(2), MSG_TRUNK and kernels older than 2.6.22

On 20/07/2010 09:54, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Is it for the dhcpcd problem we talk about few week ago, disturbed by
> new 64bit stats ?

Yes

>
> Why do you want to have a fixed size of 256 bytes ?
>
> Using 8192 bytes on stack would avoid MSG_TRUNK mess.

Yes it would, but that doesn't answer my question :)
I would like to use a buffer big enough, but not a whole 8k in size.
dhcpcd has quite a small runtime and I'd like to keep it that way.

Thanks

Roy
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