Subject: Re: misc/33330: Errors in recvmsg(2) man page
To: None <misc-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/23/2006 19:10:04
The following reply was made to PR misc/33330; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: misc/33330: Errors in recvmsg(2) man page
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:08:41 +0200
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:20:00PM +0000, noselasd@asgaard.homelinux.org wrote:
> Change
> "Here msg_name and msg_namelen specify the destination address if the
> socket is unconnected;"
> to
> "Here msg_name and msg_namelen specify the source address if the
> socket is unconnected;"
I fixed this and added another sentence.
> And even better - hint that the msg_name is filled in with the source address
> of the received message.
I didn't find the relevant code -- what exactly are the criteria so
that the source address is filled in?
Thomas