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To: Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>
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Subject: Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks! 
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 22:33:54 -0300
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>
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Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> said:

[...]

> Also pay attention to the security aspects of a true "zero copy" TCP stack.
> It means that SOMETIMES a user buffer will recieve data that is destined
> for a different process.

Why? AFAIKS, given proper handling of the issues involved, this can't
happen (sure can get tricky, but can be done in principle. Or am I
off-base?)
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