On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:39:34AM +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 12:17:43PM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:54:59AM +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> > > > What do you think these functions should print in case the data size
> > > > is smaller than necessary?
> > > 
> > > Nothing. Is there a better option?
> > 
> > If you print nothing, you'd end up with this on x86_64:
> > msg_control=[{cmsg_len=28, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET, cmsg_type=SCM_TIMESTAMP, 
> > cmsg_data=}]
> > It doesn't look nice, does it?
> 
> It does not, but it's not likely anyone will ever see it, right? :)

:)

> Would "cmsg_data=?" be better? 

It looks better.  Thinking of potential use, maybe these functions should
also return a boolean status indicating whether the printing was successful.


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