Hi, the length of the data to be sent and in addition the length of the associated control message (e.g. the source address: IP_SENDSRCADDR) musn't exceed the maximum size of the socket's send buffer (SO_SNDBUF). Otherwise EMSGSIZE is returned. That is ok.
However, if the data to be sent fits into the send buffer, but exceeds in combination with the control message: - either EWOULDBLOCK is returned when using non-blocking IO or - send operation blocks in sbwait when using blocking IO It seems that this situation will never dissolve, i.e. the sending application will be blocked forever. In our opinion either EMSGSIZE should be returned instead in this case (like e.g. FreeBSD 11.0 does) or OpenBSD should reserve some space (comparable to MSG_OOB) in addition to the maximum size of the socket's send buffer for the control messages in order to avoid such problems. What do you think about that behavior and the described alternatives? Best, Alex
