Re: AF_UNIX MSG_PEEK bug?

[Herbert Xu]

Brent Casavant <bcasavan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Did you try MSG_WAITALL flag? See "man 2 recv".
>> A TCP socket handles data in bytes.
>> You cannot complain if the amount received by recv() is smaller than expected
>> unless you use MSG_WAITALL flag.
> 
> Yes. It made no difference, as noted in the comments in the
> provided test program.

The POSIX text for MSG_WAITALL actually says that when used in
conjunction with MSG_PEEK it may not return the full data.

Having said that, I do agree that having TCP and AF_UNIX behave
in the same way is a plus.  However, if you really want this to
happen it would help if you had attached a patch :)

Thanks,
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