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authorbrian <brian@FreeBSD.org>1998-05-09 14:45:06 +0000
committerbrian <brian@FreeBSD.org>1998-05-09 14:45:06 +0000
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Add a BUGS section and describe a problem I've been having for
a few weeks now.
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-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/send.215
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/send.2 b/lib/libc/sys/send.2
index 57fcfb3..bf7bd4a 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/send.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/send.2
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" From: @(#)send.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 2/21/94
-.\" $Id$
+.\" $Id: send.2,v 1.7 1997/02/22 15:04:22 peter Exp $
.\"
.Dd February 15, 1995
.Dt SEND 2
@@ -171,6 +171,19 @@ but may be caused by transient congestion.
.It Bq Er EHOSTUNREACH
The remote host was unreachable.
.El
+.Sh BUGS
+Because
+.Fn sendmsg
+doesn't necessarily block until the data has been transferred, it
+is possible to transfer an open file descriptor across an
+.Dv AF_UNIX
+domain socket
+.Pq see Xr recv 2 ,
+then
+.Fn close
+it before it has actually been sent, the result being that the receiver
+gets a closed file descriptor. It is left to the application to
+implement an acknowlegment mechanism to prevent this from happening.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr fcntl 2 ,
.Xr getsockopt 2 ,
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