Re: New class of receive error

[Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost>]

On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 05:40:30PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> 
> By other OS's I mean AIX, HPUX, Solaris and the POSIX specificaition?
> I stopped checking others at this point but it's clearly not just Linux.

None of these report ENOBUFS when the sender fails. Mostly because
the receiver has no information whether that happened or not.


> Then I thought - route(4) behaviour shouldn't be anything special.

But it is special. The only case where you have a model (i.e. Linux NETLINK).



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