Does MSG_PEEK cause descriptor table problems?

Chris Torek chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Mon Dec 10 19:07:02 AEST 1984


I've been rewriting the parts of the socket stuff dealing with atomic
and connectionless protocols, and discovered this interesting tidbit:
if you receive, in AF_UNIX, with MSG_PEEK, a message containing "rights"
(file descriptors), you get those descriptors then and there.  If you
then receieve without MSG_PEEK, you get them *again*, with apparently
disastrous effect.

Is this not a bug?  How come I haven't seen anything posted about it?

(There are several other bugs in soreceive dealing with MSG_PEEK, too.)
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