James R. Leu writes:
> It seems that TCPs recvmsg/sendmsg and ioctl for SIOCINQ/SIOCOUTQ do not
> check to make sure the socket is connected.
And what is the problem with that?
If the socket is in the process of connecting (SYN_SENT or SYN_RECV)
then SIOCINQ/SIOCOUTQ will report zero. If closed or closing, it will
report zero since by definition all data is sent. The only invalid
case is LISTEN, and we flag this with -EINVAL.
For sendmsg/recvmsg you _want_ the kernel to wait for the connection
attempt to complete if we are in SYN_SENT or SYN_RECV. If this is not
what is happening (the socket is some other kind of "closed") you will
get an EPIPE (and perhaps a SIGPIPE signal) back. This is all done
via wait_for_tcp_connect in net/ipv4/tcp.c
In short I see no problems in the current implementation, and I doubt
any other BSD socket interface implementation acts much differently.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@xxxxxxxxxx
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