Hi, On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Martin Sustrik <sustrik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/10/14 21:27, Steve Vinoski wrote: >> Hi Martin, you're right that RCVBUF is in control in this context. >> The problem with that, though, is that it prevents setting the >> buffer size if you try to set it on socket that doesn't support >> RCVBUF, such as a push socket for example. > > I am not 100% sure how that works on the kernel level (any insights, > Garrett?) but my understanding is that owner of the IPC socket can > only specify the size of its rx buffer and has no way to affect the > size of its tx buffer. From unix(7) on linux it seems quite opposite: > The SO_SNDBUF socket option does have an effect for UNIX domain sockets, > but the SO_RCVBUF option does not. -- Paul