# \[RFC\] add SIOBKLGQ command to unix socket ioctl

- From: Roberto De Ioris \<hidden\>
- Date: 2012-03-16 06:54:54 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2012/03/10890572
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2012/03/10890572/t.md

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Hi everyone, in the uWSGI project we use TCP_INFO
datas to know the status of the socket backlog queue (this helps
the master process identifying overloads)

http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/browser/master.c#L202

We would like to have a similar feature in unix sockets.
After a bit of investigation we decided to add an ioctl to get the backlog
size. This has been applied only to unix socket but i suppose it could be
used for other network families.

Patch follow

-- 
Roberto De Ioris
http://unbit.it
```