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From: "Tom Spink" <tspink@gmail.com>
To: "Rick Jones" <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Cc: "Brent Casavant" <bcasavan@sgi.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AF_UNIX MSG_PEEK bug?
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 22:53:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b9198260801081453s198af7efycc7c35668c65eaf1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4783FBD6.1000004@hp.com>

On 08/01/2008, Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> wrote:
> Potential bugs notwithstanding, given that this is a STREAM socket, and
> as such shouldn't (I hope, or I'm eating toes for dinner again) have
> side effects like tossing the rest of a datagram, why are you using
> MSG_PEEK?  Why not simply read the N bytes of the message that will have
> the message length with a normal read/recv, and then read that many
> bytes in the next call?
>
> rick jones
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Hi,

Where in the code is the message length being sent across the socket?

-- 
Regards,
Tom Spink
University of Edinburgh

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-08 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-08 22:27 Brent Casavant
2008-01-08 22:40 ` Rick Jones
2008-01-08 22:53   ` Tom Spink [this message]
2008-01-08 23:18     ` Brent Casavant
2008-01-08 23:39       ` Tom Spink
2008-01-08 23:46         ` Tom Spink
2008-01-09  0:08           ` Brent Casavant
2008-01-08 23:20   ` Brent Casavant
2008-01-09 11:04 ` Tetsuo Handa
2008-01-09 18:01   ` Brent Casavant
2008-01-10  0:01     ` Herbert Xu
2008-01-10  1:19       ` Brent Casavant
2008-01-10  2:50       ` Brent Casavant
2008-01-10 22:35         ` Brent Casavant
2008-01-10 22:36           ` Alan Cox

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