> send() for UDP should block if the socket is filled and the interface > can't drain the data fast enough.
It doesn't (at least I cannot make it block) > Good question. There is not feedback loop like in tcp, so handling this > blocking and releasing would be a little bit harder to do for UDP. Send(2) indicates that it should do so. > > I have written a test program, > > http://www.infres.enst.fr/~pook/send/server.c, that shows that send does > > not block on FreeBSD. It does with Linux and Solaris. > > Do you know what the behaviour of Net- and/or OpenBSD is? NetBSD is the same as FreeBSD. I have not tested OpenBSD. MacOS X is similiar to FreeBSD in that send doesn't block, howver the send does not give an error: the packet is just thrown away. Stuart _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
