[PATCH 2/3] network: recvmsg and sendmsg standard compliance (BZ#16919)

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Mon Jun 13 14:43:00 GMT 2016


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.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.



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