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From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: netlink recvmsg() and MSG_TRUNC
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:40:57 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Line.LNX.4.64.0703061839450.25840@d.namei> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070306.151953.112290310.davem@davemloft.net>

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, David Miller wrote:

> I guess one thing the user could do when it sees MSG_TRUNC
> is keep calling recvmsg() until the receive queue is emptied
> of packets, in order to get that pesky nlk->cb cleared to
> NULL, then resubmit.
> 
> But that's rediculous and complicated.
> 
> Any ideas?

Only slightly less complicated: user calls recvmsg() once with a new flag 
MSG_FLUSH, which causes the queue to be flushed, then resubmits ?


- James
-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-06 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-06 23:19 netlink recvmsg() and MSG_TRUNC David Miller
2007-03-06 23:40 ` James Morris [this message]
2007-03-06 23:49 ` Herbert Xu
2007-03-06 23:57   ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-07  0:04     ` Herbert Xu
2007-03-07  0:02   ` David Miller
2007-03-07  0:04     ` Herbert Xu
2007-03-07  0:05       ` David Miller
2007-03-07  0:07         ` Herbert Xu

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