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From: Ian Molton <spyro@armlinux.org>
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Subject: Re: want opinions on possible glitch in 2.4 network error reporti ng
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On a sunny Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:08:24 -0500 (EST) Richard B. Johnson gathered
a sheaf of electrons and etched in their motions the following immortal
words:

> On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Perches, Joe wrote:
> [SNIPPED..]
> > > That is correct UDP behaviour 
> > 
> > Do you think this is the correct PacketSocket/RAW behaviour?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > How does one guarantee a send/sendto/write?
> > -
> 
> Easy, you use send() or write(). These work on stream protocol TCP/IP

I know its an extreme case, but consider that something goes wrong and the
kernel ends up thinking its buffer is always full / zero lenngth /
something horrible.

I'd personally like it if it warned me it wasnt even trying to send my
packets, rather than just ignoring them completely...
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