On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Adam Langley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Ben Laurie <[email protected]> wrote: >> Why will it certainly not work? From what (little) I understand, >> SOCK_SEQPACKET adds record boundaries to SOCK_STREAM ... presumably >> one could simulate that over SOCK_STREAM? > > There are multiple, concurrent writers to the socket. If you make > assumptions about the kernel's behaviour, you might be able to come up > with a workable framing protocol, but it's much better to use the > correct socket type.
If anyone gets the chance, I would happily pre-LGTM a change that stuffs some comments near this code explaining the reasoning for this. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
