Re: recv(2), MSG_TRUNK and kernels older than 2.6.22

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

Le mardi 20 juillet 2010 à 09:26 +0100, Roy Marples a écrit :
> Hi
> 
> I would like to support all possible kernels I can and previously used a 
> fixed buffer of size 256 to read from netlink sockets. This is now 
> proving too small for some 64-bit kernels so I would like to use recv(2) 
> with MSG_TRUNK to wor out the size. However, the man page says that this 
> only works for 2.6.22 kernels or newer.
> 
> My question is, what is the behaviour of recv on older kernels where 
> MSG_TRUNC is not supported? I would rather not use some arbitary size if 
> at all possible.
> 

Is it for the dhcpcd problem we talk about few week ago, disturbed by
new 64bit stats ?

Why do you want to have a fixed size of 256 bytes ?

Using 8192 bytes on stack would avoid MSG_TRUNK mess.

static int
get_netlink(int fd, int flags,
    int (*callback)(struct nlmsghdr *))
{
        char buffer[8192];
        ssize_t bytes;
        struct nlmsghdr *nlm;
        int r = -1;

        for (;;) {
                bytes = recv(fd, buffer, sizeof(buffer), flags);
                if (bytes == -1) {
                        if (errno == EAGAIN) {
                                r = 0;
                                goto eexit;
                        }
                        if (errno == EINTR)
                                continue;
                        goto eexit;
                }