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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 23:21:20 +0000 (GMT)
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> The problem is that I don't want to shrink the buffer size, hence I need
> to read the current size.  Do I need to halve the returned value from
> getsockopt() then?

The kernel always uses a buffer as big or bigger than you asked for
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