On 11/14/2016 11:36 PM, Rick Jones wrote: >> Lets change the example so others don't propagate the problem further. >> >> Signed-off-by David Wilder <dwilder@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> --- man7/netlink.7.orig 2016-11-14 13:30:36.522101156 -0800 >> +++ man7/netlink.7 2016-11-14 13:30:51.002086354 -0800 >> @@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ >> .in +4n >> .nf >> int len; >> -char buf[4096]; >> +char buf[8192]; > > Since there doesn't seem to be a define one could use in the user space > linux/netlink.h (?), but there are comments in the example code in the > manpage, how about also including a brief comment to the effect that > using 8192 bytes will avoid message truncation problems on platforms > with a large PAGE_SIZE? > > /* avoid msg truncation on > 4096 byte PAGE_SIZE platforms */ > > or something like that. Thanks for the suggestion, Rick. Done! Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
