Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 9 Jun 1998 17:05:44 +0300 | | From | Meelis Roos <> | | Subject | Re: Patch 2.1.205ac-2 |
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AC> o SO_SNDBUF/SO_RCVBUF behave more like BSD, they are hints and don't error AC> on failure. (You can getsockopt them back to see what value you ended up AC> with)
With this patch, too high values for SO_???BUF seem to be just ignored. Maybe it would be better to set the to the highest values instead?
They are hints, and the userspace program is trying to tell the kernel to rise the limits very high. Maybe the kernel should try to help as much as it can?
-- Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)
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