[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Welton) wrote on 17.12.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 09:22:51PM -0800, Guy Maor wrote: > > According to Stevens on page 300, writev is atomic, so I would regard > > Linux's behavior as a bug. > > On one tty I start wserv, the offending program with the writev: > @chimchim [/usr/lib/epic4] $ ./wserv chimchim 9000 > > On another, a 'server': > > @chimchim [~] $ nc -l -p 4000 > /dev/ttyp6 > > There is a newline, it's transmitted fine, but, here is the tcpdump: Umm - TCP? I'm not the TCP expert, but I understand that TCP doesn't ever guarantee where it's going to put packet boundaries. That's supposed to be a stream, and packet boundaries are supposed to be invisible to the upper layers, except for timing. MfG Kai -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
