I am working on socket calls at the kernel level(linux 2.4.29) . I have worked with many options like MSG_WAITALL , MSG_PEEK ..etc. I am stuck at the implementation where I really need some option to skip a part(initial part) of the socket recieve buffer when I call sock_recvmsg .i just want to throw away some header data which I have read , basicaly. For example : The socket recieve buffer has say: "1234aaaaaaaaaa" My sock_recvmsg should give me "aaaaaaaaa" Thanks Sai __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html