Subject: Re: recv(2), MSG_TRUNK and kernels older than 2.6.22

From: Roy Marples <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:08:26 +0100

On 20/07/2010 09:54, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Is it for the dhcpcd problem we talk about few week ago, disturbed by
> new 64bit stats ?

Yes

>
> Why do you want to have a fixed size of 256 bytes ?
>
> Using 8192 bytes on stack would avoid MSG_TRUNK mess.

Yes it would, but that doesn't answer my question :)
I would like to use a buffer big enough, but not a whole 8k in size.
dhcpcd has quite a small runtime and I'd like to keep it that way.

Thanks

Roy