Irix doesnt, quite a few sys5 ones dont.
> Do you mean that by portability reasons we should keep that as is,
> maybe adding some flamage on return?
I mean apps should pass a byte of data anyway
> Hmm... I'll look through the code - probably the best thing to do would be
> to postpone cmsgs till the next nonempty message / end of connection. What
> do you think about that variant?
Still unpleasant. Suppose the pass expects a reply. Basically 0 length
things to SOCK_STREAM = trouble in BSD socket API's.
Alan
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