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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fix getsockname (ipv4/ipv6)
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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:37:33 +0100

> John Reumann <reumann.linux@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This change will return ENOSPC if the return address provided by the caller of getsockname
> >  is not sufficiently large to hold the return value.
> 
> Those interfaces allow applications to query how large the sockaddr storage needs to
> be by checking *addrlen after a successful call.

Right.