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On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 03:42:55PM -0700, Robert White wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] > On Behalf Of Willy Tarreau > > > As I asked in a previous mail in this overly long thread, why not returning > > zero bytes at all. It is perfectly valid to receive an UDP packet with 0 > > Zero bytes is "end of file". Don't go trying to co-opt end of file. That way lies > madness and despair. Please explain me what "end of file" means with UDP. If your UDP-based app expects to receive a zero when the other end stops transmitting, then it might wait for a very long time. As opposed to TCP, there's no FIN control flag to tell the remote host that you sent your last packet. Willy - 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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