On 02/03/2010 07:00 AM, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > 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. > >
Sorry about that, I fixed it, the bug should be publicly accessible now. The relevant part to MSG_CTRUNC starts at comment #3. There is also a similar issue described here: http://osdir.com/ml/fedora-selinux/2009-09/msg00071.html Best regards, --Edwin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
