RE: Problem with unix sockets: SOCK_DGRAM ignores MSG_TRUNC

[David Schwartz]

> Why not improve consistency and make unix_dgram_recvmsg() return the full
> packet length? So it would behave as UDP does. What do you think about
> adding the following code to linux/net/unix/af_unix.c:

It would be nice if the world worked that way, but you can't break POSIX
compliance. Perhaps another receive flag?

DS


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