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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: asymmetry with MSG_DONTWAIT in sendmsg() and recvmsg()
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:34:36 -0400
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Nivedita Singhvi wrote:
> Chris Friesen wrote:
>  > Michael T Kerrisk wrote:
>  >
>  >> MSG_DONTWAIT should also work with recvmsg().
>  >
>  >
>  > Hmm...  Just tried it with a DGRAM socket, and it seems to work.  Any
>  > ideas why its not in the man pages?
> 
> Think you are on an older version of the man pages.
> It's been there for a while.

It's mentioned in the "msg_flags" section, which is set on call *return*.  It's 
not mentioned in the "flags" section.

Perhaps its just in the wrong part of the man page...

Chris