Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 8 Feb 2002 08:35:29 +0000 | | From | Ian Molton <> | | Subject | Re: want opinions on possible glitch in 2.4 network error reporti ng |
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On a sunny Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:08:24 -0500 (EST) Richard B. Johnson gathered a sheaf of electrons and etched in their motions the following immortal words:
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Perches, Joe wrote: > [SNIPPED..] > > > That is correct UDP behaviour > > > > Do you think this is the correct PacketSocket/RAW behaviour? > > Yes. > > > How does one guarantee a send/sendto/write? > > - > > Easy, you use send() or write(). These work on stream protocol TCP/IP
I know its an extreme case, but consider that something goes wrong and the kernel ends up thinking its buffer is always full / zero lenngth / something horrible.
I'd personally like it if it warned me it wasnt even trying to send my packets, rather than just ignoring them completely... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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