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Date:      Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:12:18 -0800 (PST)
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mikko@dynas.se>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Rejecting a connection: is accept(2) correct?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012140905220.336-100000@explorer.rsa.com>

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AFAIK there is no portable way to reject incoming connections without
calling accept().  However, accept(2) states:

     One can obtain user connection request data without confirming
     the connection by issuing a recvmsg(2) call with an msg_iovlen of
     0 and a non-zero msg_controllen, or by issuing a getsockopt(2)
     request.  Similarly, one can provide user connection rejection
     information by issuing a sendmsg(2) call providing only the
     control information, or by calling setsockopt(2).

Is this really true?  A quick experiment with recvmsg() seems to
indicate it is not, at least not for TCP sockets.

      ?
      /Mikko

P.S. Anybody who claims that this works is encouraged to provide
     proof in the form of code... :-)

 Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com
 RSA Security



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