> On 27 Apr 2016, at 23:25, Joe Touch <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/27/2016 1:16 AM, Michael Welzl wrote:
>> Thinking about Toerless' general point of using more modern APIs made
>> me think of the bigger picture again. For example, one cool recent
>> feature in TCP APIs is the SO_SNDLOWAT socket option, which allows
>> better control of the sender buffer. Not including it in an API
>> document "sucks" and it IS nice to include it in a description of an
>> API.
> 
> This is an interesting example. It affects how a user-level process
> interacts with the protocol implementation inside the OS but has NOTHING
> to do with TCP.
> 
> I'm not sure where I would put that. It clearly isn't part of the TCP
> API. Nor, e.g., would be the "nice" level of the process that's feeding
> data to TCP -- yet both could affect performance between two applications.
> 
> It seems like there's a gap here you could drive a truck through that
> needs to be addressed. I'm not sure where, though - i.e., whether this
> is part of TAPS or not.

Not part of TAPS I think, because it's not related to automatizing the use of 
protocols other than TCP or UDP.

Cheers,
Michael

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