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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:59:17 -0800
Subject: Re: Routing Socket and New Addresses
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From: Justin C.Walker <justin@mac.com>
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On Monday, January 28, 2002, at 05:03 PM, Andrew wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Justin C.Walker wrote:
>
>> It is and it is :-}.  At least, Stevens discusses it in "Unix Network
>> Programming", v1, 2e (sec. 20.3).  Different systems, alas, treat this
>> case differently.
>
> My section 20.3 is on UDP Datagram Trunctation...did you mean 17.3
> (Routing Sockets: Reading and Writing). I can't find any mention of this
> behaviour in either place mind you.

Maybe I misunderstood the original message; I thought this thread dealt 
with the observed truncation of packets when read from a socket.  20.3 
was what I intended, as it covers the observed behavior (at least, 
that's my story, and I'm sticking with it :-]).

Regards,

Justin

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