netdev - Re: [PATCH 6/6] unix: Support peeking offset for stream sockets

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Date:	Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:05:43 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	xemul@...allels.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] unix: Support peeking offset for stream sockets

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:51:19 +0100

> Le mardi 21 février 2012 à 21:32 +0400, Pavel Emelyanov a écrit :
>> The same here -- we can protect the sk_peek_off manipulations with
>> the unix_sk->readlock mutex.
>> 
>> The peeking of data from a stream socket is done in the datagram style,
>> i.e. even if there's enough room for more data in the user buffer, only
>> the head skb's data is copied in there. This feature is preserved when
>> peeking data from a given offset -- the data is read till the nearest
>> skb's boundary.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
>> 
>> ---
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied.
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