D'oh... 'sorry Marcel, good point: one should either chop up outgoing data on blocking writes or use non-blocking writes.

	I still maintain, though, that the central issue is how to avoid an endless loop of zero-length writes, and that using a blocking select() in a separate thread is the way to do it.


	thanks,

-C


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