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Subject: Re: sendmsg() not working?!
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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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