Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271255AbTGWTnl (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:43:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271259AbTGWTnl (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:43:41 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:20629 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271255AbTGWTnh (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:43:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:56:25 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Glenn Fowler Cc: gsf@research.att.com, dgk@research.att.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: kernel bug in socketpair() Message-Id: <20030723125625.77eda939.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <200307231929.PAA77754@raptor.research.att.com> References: <200307231428.KAA15254@raptor.research.att.com> <20030723074615.25eea776.davem@redhat.com> <200307231656.MAA69129@raptor.research.att.com> <20030723100043.18d5b025.davem@redhat.com> <200307231724.NAA90957@raptor.research.att.com> <20030723103135.3eac4cd2.davem@redhat.com> <200307231814.OAA74344@raptor.research.att.com> <20030723112307.5b8ae55c.davem@redhat.com> <200307231854.OAA90112@raptor.research.att.com> <20030723120457.206dc02d.davem@redhat.com> <200307231911.PAA35164@raptor.research.att.com> <20030723121436.10d53965.davem@redhat.com> <200307231929.PAA77754@raptor.research.att.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.6; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 656 Lines: 15 On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:29:03 -0400 (EDT) Glenn Fowler wrote: > linux has ioctl(I_PEEK) for stream devices and recv() for sockets, > and neither of these work on pipes; if there is a linux alternative > for pipes then we'd be glad to use it Alan mentioned the pure-socket namespace we have for named unix sockets, but I don't think you can actually use it for your problem unfortunately. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/