Linux-Hams archive - September 1999: Re: Kernel 2.2.12 select()/accept() broken ?

Re: Kernel 2.2.12 select()/accept() broken ?

Craig Small (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:07:45 +1000 (EST)

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Tomi Manninen said:
> It seems the interface to getname has changed a bit. From that code I
> deduce that &len is now supposed be _filled_in_ by sock->ops->getname().
> At least inet_getname() does that. And it's now move_addr_to_user() that
> handles truncating the address struct if needed.
>
> Now it should only be a matter of a small adjustment to ax25_getname(),
> nr_getname() and rose_getname() and we are back to business...

Did this change from 2.2.11 to 2.2.12? What the hell were they thinking
changing this in a stable kernel? Isn't this the whole point of 2.3.x
kernels.

- Craig

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