Bryan Olson wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: >> Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: >>> Are sockets full duplex? >>> >> Yes. But you have to use non-blocking calls in your application to use >> them as full-duplex in your code. > > Hmmm... I'm missing something. Suppose I have one thread (or > process) reading from a blocking-mode socket while another is > writing to it? What stops it from being full duplex? > > Nothing, I guess. I just didn't consider threaded code ...
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