Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:58:30 -0400 | From | Vlad Yasevich <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sctp: implement SIOCINQ ioctl() |
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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
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