From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:40:57 +0200 (EET)

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> In general, I wonder if there's something that mandates that a set/get 
> pair of value should be equal?

There is no such requirement, we've been violating that premise since
day one for socket receive and send queue buffer limit socket options.

The kernel is always allowed to add fuzz or overhead adjustments to
whatever the user gives it.  If the user wants to know what the kernel
actually ended up using, it get getsockopt() to find out.
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