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Date:      Mon, 18 Nov 1996 11:18:05 -0600
From:      jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon)
To:        michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock)
Cc:        fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner), terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert), scrappy@ki.net, jdp@polstra.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Sockets question...
Message-ID:  <199611181718.RAA19995@right.PCS>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.95.961118153010.8195A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>; from Michael Hancock on Nov 18, 1996 16:02:11 %2B0900
References:  <96Nov15.113305pst.177557@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> <Pine.SV4.3.95.961118153010.8195A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>

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Michael Hancock writes:
> On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Bill Fenner wrote:
> 
> > 4.4BSD introduced the MSG_WAITALL flag, so if you use recv() or any of its
> > friends you can ask for your whole request to be performed.  This is, of
> > course, not portable, and MSG_WAITALL won't even do the trick if your
> > request is larger than the socket's high water mark (e.g. SO_RECVBUF).
> > 
> 
> UnixWare 2.1.1 now supports this, I'll have to check Solaris.  Maybe it's
> more portable than you think. 

Sequent PTX/4.1.X also supports MSG_WAITALL.  As a matter of fact, the manual
pages for socket(2) and recv(2) look nearly identical to FreeBSD.
--
Jonathan



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