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Date:      Mon, 11 Jan 1999 09:34:59 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
Cc:        Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmsg() not working?! 
Message-ID:  <199901111735.JAA92400@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:23:02 %2B0100." <369A0946.DA78C160@scc.nl> 

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> The patch Brian posted does do the job, but, IMHO, is not a good basis for
> further finetuning of the sendmsg and recvmsg syscalls. Especially the
> copyout bothers me. Is it worth reimplementing sendmsg and recvmsg or is
> everybody happy with the patch?

That depends on how you describe "reimplementing".  You might want to 
shim the generic implementations to make them more friendly to the 
Linux layer, but I would not think that reimplementing the bulk of the 
syscall in the Linux emulator would be a wise idea.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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