netdev - Re: LTP recv/recvmsg tests failing on 3.17

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Date:	Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:39:33 -0500
From:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@...il.com>
To:	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
Cc:	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: LTP recv/recvmsg tests failing on 3.17

On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:57:41 -0400
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com> wrote:

> I think applications simply cannot assume a consistent
> return value when passing unsupported combinations
> of flags. This is undefined behavior.

Yeah, I think LTP is wrong here. There is no explicit test for invalid
combinations of flags and it was assuming there was.

But I was also wondering why we return EAGAIN here for no data waiting,
when we return EINVAL for the same case with a different type of data.
There's no spec and it's not documented, so I guess the answer is "it's
always been that way."

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