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Author neologix
Recipients baikie, neologix, vstinner
Date 2011-09-18.21:11:39
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Message-id <1316380300.83.0.142812104939.issue12981@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> I had a look at this patch, and the FD passing looked OK, except
> that calculating the buffer size with CMSG_SPACE() may allow more
> than one file descriptor to be received, with the extra one going
> unnoticed - it should use CMSG_LEN() instead

Thanks for catching this.
Here's an updated patch.

> (the existing C implementation has the same problem, I see).

I just checked, and the C version uses CMSG_SPACE() as the buffer size, but passes CMSG_LEN() to cmsg->cmsg_len and msg.msg_controllen. Or am I missing something?
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2011-09-18 21:11:40neologixsetrecipients: + neologix, vstinner, baikie
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