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Subject: Re: setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDBUF) broken on 2.4.18?
To: Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com (Raphael Manfredi)
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:39:06 +0000 (GMT)
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> to verify what the kernel has set, I read TWICE as much the amount used
> for the set.  That is, if I set 8192, I read 16384.  Therefore, to set
> the correct size, I need to half the parameter first.
> Is this a known bug?  Is it setsockopt or getsockopt which returns the
> wrong size?

Neither. You asked for 8K the kernel allows a bit more for BSD compatibility
and other things. You query and it gives back the size it chose
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