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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.9] address family not supported for sendmsg()
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:29:03 -0700
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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:07:01 -0400 (EDT)
Suresh Krishnan <suresh.krishnan@ericsson.ca> wrote:

> Hi Dave/Yoshifuji,
>   I agree that the case you pointed out is tricky. I am fine with either 
> EAFNOSUPPORT or EINVAL. But the POSIX and SUSv3 man pages specify EINVAL 
> as a error only when the sum of iov_len values overflows ssize_t.

I now think EAFNOSUPPORT is fine.

Please resend your patch to me under private cover so I
can apply it Suresh, thanks.