2010/1/27 Török Edwin <edwinto...@gmail.com>: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.23-1 > Severity: normal > > "man 2 recvmsg" says: > MSG_CTRUNC > indicates that some control data were discarded due to lack of > space in the buffer for ancillary data. > > That doesn't mention that MSG_CTRUNC can be set due to a permission error > also. > SELinux can deny file descriptor passing, in which case the receiving > application gets a message with MSG_CTRUNC set and controllen zero! > > See here for one example where this happens > https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1700#c3
(Upstream maintainer here...) I created an account on this bugzilla, but still it tells me: "You are not authorized to access bug #1700. " So, I can't read this bug to get more info. Cheers, Michael > -- System Information: > Debian Release: squeeze/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.4 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on: > ii manpages 3.23-1 Manual pages about using a > GNU/Lin > > manpages-dev recommends no packages. > > Versions of packages manpages-dev suggests: > ii konqueror [man-browser] 4:4.3.4-1 KDE 4's advanced file manager, > web > ii man-db [man-browser] 2.5.6-5 on-line manual pager > > -- no debconf information > > > > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org