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madhavancha 03-27-2011 01:51 PM
setsockopt doubles size asked with SO_RECVBUF
 
Hi, When using setsockopt on a multicast scoket, I request a buffer of 8 MB. A subsequent cll to getsockopt though tells that the kernel allocated 16 MB. Why would this be the case?

Thanks.


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