topic Re: VMS setsockopt permission failure in Operating System - OpenVMS

VMS setsockopt permission failure

alphacat — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:41:39 GMT

Hi everyone,

When porting Linux networking code to OpenVMS 7.3-1, TCPIP 5.3-18 on XP1000,

the setsockopt function fails to set the size of send or receive buffer (unlike Linux):

. . . . .

sock = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0);

. . . . .

rbuf = 61440; /* just an example; this is the default */

retval = setsockopt(sock,SOL_SOCKET,SO_RCVBUF,&rbuf,sizeof(rbuf));

. . . . .

producing the message "permission denied". The other socket options are set successfully.

I wonder what permissions are necessary and why have I no full control on the socket I just created?

No information found in the Internet about privileges, protection codes, system parameters

concerning sockets in OpenVMS.

Thanks

Re: VMS setsockopt permission failure

Jeremy Begg — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 04:08:08 GMT

Have you looked at the VMS documentation?

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/82final/6529/6529pro_028.html#op_setsock_tab

To set SO_RCVBUF you must have SYSPRV, BYPASS or OPER privilege.

I image this would be because each socket buffer consumes system dynamic memory, but I could be mistaken.

Regards,

Jeremy Begg

Re: VMS setsockopt permission failure

alphacat — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:44:41 GMT

Thank you for your attention to my question and the reference to the HP document.

I read a number of DEC/CPQ/HP OpenVMS documents related to TCP/sockets visible in the Internet, the reply "permission denied" was mentioned many times but without any comments which permissions were lacking. It happened that I did not meet the proper document. I have a set of VMS documentation on CDs but I am not sure in which document the required information could be located.

This is a pity. By no means the target program should be run at elevated privileges, nor should it be installed as known image. I see the only way to increase the buffer size in TCPIP globally using TCPIP>sysconfig but this may lead to undesirable side effects with the other network applications.

Thank you once again