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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
Cc: penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AF_UNIX MSG_PEEK bug?
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:01:53 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JCkrp-0000vX-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.1.00.0801091201180.35527@pkunk.americas.sgi.com>

Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com> wrote:
> 
>> Did you try MSG_WAITALL flag? See "man 2 recv".
>> A TCP socket handles data in bytes.
>> You cannot complain if the amount received by recv() is smaller than expected
>> unless you use MSG_WAITALL flag.
> 
> Yes. It made no difference, as noted in the comments in the
> provided test program.

The POSIX text for MSG_WAITALL actually says that when used in
conjunction with MSG_PEEK it may not return the full data.

Having said that, I do agree that having TCP and AF_UNIX behave
in the same way is a plus.  However, if you really want this to
happen it would help if you had attached a patch :)

Thanks,
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-10  0:58 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
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 [this message]
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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