Opened 11 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#522 closed enhancement (worksforme)

Implement sendto() and recvfrom() for TCP

Reported by: Martin Decky Owned by: Jiri Svoboda
Priority: minor Milestone: 0.7.0
Component: helenos/net/tcp Version: mainline
Keywords: Cc:
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Description

Although not used frequently, even SOCK_STREAM sockets can support sendto() and recvfrom() calls (with proper arguments).

Change History (6)

comment:1 by Jiri Svoboda, 11 years ago

Do you have any documentation which would describe how that should behave? Or at least any ideas?

comment:2 by Martin Decky, 11 years ago

The Linux man page for send(2) states:

If sendto() is used on a connection-mode (SOCK_STREAM, SOCK_SEQPACKET) socket,
the arguments dest_addr and addrlen are ignored (and the error EISCONN may be
returned when they are not NULL and 0), and the error ENOTCONN is returned when
the socket was not actually connected. Otherwise, the address of the target is
given by dest_addr with addrlen specifying its size.

Similarly, the Linux man page for recv(2) states:

The recv() call is normally used only on a connected socket (see connect(2)) and
is identical to recvfrom() with a NULL src_addr argument.

I don't consider this as a "canonical" behaviour in any sense, but I believe it cannot hurt anything.

comment:3 by Jiri Svoboda, 11 years ago

For comparison, the Solaris man pages, although they seem to indicate that it is possible to use sendto() and recvfrom() on a stream socket, they don't say anything about what it actually does.

comment:4 by Jakub Jermář, 10 years ago

Milestone: 0.5.10.5.2

comment:5 by Jakub Jermář, 8 years ago

Is this still relevant now that we don't use the almost BSD sockets?

comment:6 by Jiri Svoboda, 8 years ago

Resolution: worksforme
Status: newclosed

No, it's not.

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