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From: Steve Rago <sar@nec-labs.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <luto@amacapital.net>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	<mtk.manpages@gmail.com>, <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: bug in passing file descriptors
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 16:29:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5253199B.3000109@nec-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131007.154226.533738557474978526.davem@davemloft.net>

On 10/07/2013 03:42 PM, David Miller wrote:
> There is no compatability issue.
>
> 32-bit tasks will always see the 4-byte align/length.
> 64-bit tasks will always see the 8-byte align/length.
>

Really?  So when I compile my application on a 32-bit Linux box and then try to run it on a 64-bit Linux box, you're not 
going to overrun my buffer when CMSG_SPACE led me to allocate an insufficient amount of memory needed to account for 
padding on the 64-bit platform?

By the way, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris all behave as I described, so if you're happy with Linux behaving 
differently, then I'll stop wasting bandwidth.

Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-07 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-07 18:27 bug in passing file descriptors Steve Rago
2013-10-07 18:44 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-10-07 19:06   ` Steve Rago
2013-10-07 19:12     ` David Miller
2013-10-07 19:17       ` Steve Rago
2013-10-07 19:42         ` David Miller
2013-10-07 20:29           ` Steve Rago [this message]
2013-10-07 21:32             ` David Miller
2013-10-07 22:55               ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-08 14:32                 ` Steve Rago
2013-10-08 16:02                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-10-08 16:18                     ` Steve Rago
2013-10-08 16:41                       ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-08 16:51                         ` Steve Rago
2013-10-09 14:07                           ` Steve Rago
2013-10-08  8:43             ` David Laight

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