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Subject: Re: Help 'no buffer available'!!
In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=Communique._Inc.%l=KAORI-961226015228Z-3213@kaori.communique.net> from Raul Zighelboim at "Dec 25, 96 07:52:28 pm"
To: mango@staff.communique.net (Raul Zighelboim)
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 17:48:14 +1100 (EST)
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> My poor news server is sick.....
> 
> ----kiyoko:/var/log# ping akira
> PING akira.communique.net (204.27.65.10): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 204.27.65.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.867 ms
> ping: sendto: No buffer space available
> ping: wrote akira.communique.net 64 chars, ret=-1
> ping: sendto: No buffer space available

I often get this as well. What is the philosophy in having
sendto() et al return an error, rather than block until
buffer space is available?