Re: setsockopt(..,SO_RCVBUF,..) sets wrong value

[David S. Miller]

Manfred Bartz writes:
 > When I do a setsockopt(..,SO_RCVBUF,..) and then read the value back
 > with getsockopt(), the reported value is exactly twice of what I set.

That's correct.  Please search the list archives to learn why things
behave this way and why they are not going to change.

I wish that this long winded, and often occuring thread not occur
again.

Later,
David S. Miller
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