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Re: [PATCH 2/3] network: recvmsg and sendmsg standard compliance (BZ#16919)
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>, Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 10:43:44 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] network: recvmsg and sendmsg standard compliance (BZ#16919)
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On 06/10/2016 04:17 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> I think the answer is that the return value may be used with syscalls that
> take tids (which are legimitate interfaces for glibc users to use, in most
> cases), some of which may have matching glibc interfaces and some of which
> may not. While we should describe what wrappers do in the glibc manual,
> ultimately for Linux-specific syscall wrappers the kernel's behavior is
> more authoritative than the manual.
The authoritative source in this case is the linux man pages project IMO.
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Cheers,
Carlos.