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Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2001 07:50:34 -0800
From:      Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Changing UDP select() behavior
Message-ID:  <3AAF934A.2D63C08A@isi.edu>
References:  <200103140106.f2E161a09824@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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Brian Somers wrote:
> Having said this, it would be nice if it was possible to pre-allocate
> (a small number of) mbufs for a pipe() or socketpair(), giving a
> reliable SOCK_DGRAM file-descriptor based ipc mechanism.

We're talking Internet here, so it won't be reliable. It'd just block the
select/write instead of dropping packets on the floor locally if there is
no queue space. Mbufs are not the scare resource, queue space in the
interface queue is.

Lars
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Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu>                 Information Sciences Institute
http://www.isi.edu/larse/                University of Southern California
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