At 09:01 AM 8/12/2005, Hal Rosenstock wrote: >It is done to preserve length checks that were already there (on struct >msghdr in packet_sendmsg and addr_len in packet_bind). I didn't want to >weaken that.
Are you sure things break if you simply build a message in user space that's got the larger address (without changing the sockaddr_ll at all)? It looks to me as if msg->msg_namelen/msg_name can be any appropriate size which is at least as large as the sockaddr_ll. Tom. _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
