Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 2 Dec 2000 18:34:44 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: /dev/random probs in 2.4test(12-pre3) |
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On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> particularly people who writing network programs. The number of people > who assume that they can get an entire (variable-length) RPC packet by > doing a single read() call astounds me. TCP doesn't provide message > boundaries, never did and never will. The problem is that such program > will work on a LAN, and then blow up when you try using them across the > real Internet.
Erm... Not that ignoring the return values was a bright idea, but the lack of reliable ordered datagram protocol in IP family is not a good thing. It can be implemented over TCP, but it's a big overkill. IL is a nice thing to have...
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