Re: setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDBUF) broken on 2.4.18?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 09:39:31 +0000 (GMT)


> If I can't use the returned value from getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF) to do a
> setsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), then it's broken! You'll have a hard time convincing
> me otherwise.

I'd like to see a standards document cite for that. The behaviour we follow
is not atypical for a lot of ioctls and syscalls were you ask for one size
and the kernel gives you its preferred variant. In the other cases I can
think of the kernel also does not lie about its preferred variant
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