Re: udp(7) and MSG_TRUNC

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On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:39:24 -0400 (EDT)
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明  <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> wrote:

> Well, by the spec. (Open Group Base Specifications, Issue 6),
> recv(2) and recvfrom(2) shall return "the length of the message written 
> to the buffer pointed to by the buffer argument."
> So, current code conforms to this.
> (On the other hand, the spec just says that recvmsg(2) shall return 
> "the total length of the message;" Hmm?)

I think the new behavior is OK too, nobody is passing in
MSG_TRUNC in the recvmsg() flags except those who expect
it to do something.

It should be a very safe change, therefore.
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