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List:       linux-sctp
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] sctp: implement SIOCINQ ioctl()
From:       Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich () hp ! com>
Date:       2010-06-24 13:58:30
Message-ID: 4C236486.5070708 () hp ! com
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Diego Elio "Flameeyes" Pettenò wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 24/06/2010 alle 09.40 -0400, Vlad Yasevich ha scritto:
>> You don't call accept() on an SCTP SEQPACKET socket.  You can just
>> read from it.
> 
> Okay I guess I'll send a patch to the man page to fix that then.

I don't think the man page needs an update.  This is just an SCTP-ism.
There are other protocols using SOCK_SEQPACKET that implement and support
accept() call.

The SCTP api spec decided that it wouldn't support accept() and we have to
follow it.


> 
>> This way, you'll ignore listening SOCK_STREAM sockets which will not
>> have any
>> data anyway, but you'll check out listening SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets
>> that may have
>> data waiting on them. 
> 
> Ah I think I see what you mean here: SIOCINQ would work for TCP-style
> ESTABLISHED sockets _and_ SEQPACKET LISTENING sockets, right?

Right.

-vlad

> 
> Will send the updated patch in a moment.
> 
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