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by **Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engine** » Tue, 28 Oct 1997 04:00:00

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> Solaris local sockets do not seem to pay attention to SO_RCVBUF and
>SO_SNDBUF. I'm trying to set those buffers to a very small size (4 or
>8 bytes) and use them as control sockets. Once I send my message to
>the other process I do not want to return from select, approved for a
>write, until the other process performs some action, and then pulls
>the message from the socket buffer.

Buffer sizes are roudned up to MTU size (which for loopback is 8K)

Quote:> So, anyone have any idea how I can make Solaris local sockets buffer
>how much data I want it to buffer? or anyone know where I should be
>asking?

No way; use a different mechanism.

Casper
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by **Libo** » Tue, 28 Oct 1997 04:00:00

Solaris local sockets do not seem to pay attention to SO_RCVBUF and
SO_SNDBUF. I'm trying to set those buffers to a very small size (4 or
8 bytes) and use them as control sockets. Once I send my message to
the other process I do not want to return from select, approved for a
write, until the other process performs some action, and then pulls
the message from the socket buffer.

This works fine on SunOS, the local socket will not buffer more then
I want it to, and I can use a 4 byte message to fill up the socket, so
no more writing can be performed. On solaris this dosn't work, the
socket will buffer a lot more then I tell it to.

So, anyone have any idea how I can make Solaris local sockets buffer
how much data I want it to buffer? or anyone know where I should be
asking?

Thank you very much, this is really driving me nuts.

-Libor

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