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Commit 7c559a9e authored by Gerrit Renker's avatar Gerrit Renker Committed by David S. Miller
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[DCCP]: Add socket option to query the current MPS



This enables applications to query the current value of the Maximum
Packet Size via a socket option, suggested as a SHOULD in (RFC 4340,
p. 102).

This socket option is useful to avoid the annoying bail-out via
`-EMSGSIZE'.  In particular, as fragmentation is not currently
supported (and its use is partly discouraged in RFC 4340).

With this option, it is possible to size buffers accordingly, e.g.

	int buflen = dccp_get_cur_mps(sockfd);

	/* or */
	if (msgsize > dccp_get_cur_mps(sockfd))
		die("message is too large for this path");

Signed-off-by: default avatarGerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIan McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent bc849872
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