Strange socket behavior

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Mon Oct 9 17:59:39 UTC 2006


Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> writes:
> Why is this relevant? I believe pretty much all code we currently have
> is written under the assumption that the primitive will only accept
> "reasonable" amounts of data. Any code that pushes large amounts of
> data and expects the socket interface to handle it will be affected by
> this problem. 


I don't know the actual behavior of current platforms, but it would
sure be nice if you did not have to make this assumption.  If I was
maintaining an OS and/or a router, I might well think it is a
*feature* to support large buffers....


-Lex





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