Re: [BUG] Suspected bug in getpeername and getsockname

From: Balbir Singh (balbir_soni@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 17 2002 - 11:27:17 EST


What I was trying to state is that the protocol specific
code does not get to see the length passed from the user.
The protocol specific code would like to look at what
the user passed.

Balbir

>You totally missed what move_addr_to_user() does, which is in fact
>truncate the copied len to what the user supplied. Also, the comments
>in move_addr_to_user even quote the bits of 1003.1g you a referring
>to.
>
>In short, the bug you suggest is not there.

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