Re: [2.4][2.2] Bug: accept discards socket options/O_NONBLOCK

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Fri Sep 15 2000 - 08:18:05 EST


On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 05:54:14AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:01:25 +0200
> From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
>
> (This is for IPv4, someone would have to check IPv6 as well).
> The socket flag O_NONBLOCK is _NOT_ properly inherited through an
> accept(2) call, in spite of what socket(7) documents. This is a bug.
> accept(2) must copy the file descriptor's flag of the socket.
>
> The socket(7) manpage is buggy, not the kernel.

Fixed on vger now.

I planned to send an update to Andries soon anyways.

-Andi
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