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/



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