On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:49:07 +1100 Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I guess one thing the user could do when it sees MSG_TRUNC > > is keep calling recvmsg() until the receive queue is emptied > > of packets, in order to get that pesky nlk->cb cleared to > > NULL, then resubmit. > > > > But that's rediculous and complicated. > > > > Any ideas? > > Which netlink family generates (or needs to generate) unbounded > messages to user-space? Or indeed which ones generate messages > greater than 64K (or 4K for that matter)? > > Cheers, I know some commands send big blocks down of configuration information. One example is netem statistical data, but there are others. -- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
