Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 17:43:46 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sockets question... Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961114174312.10263A-100000@quagmire.ki.net> In-Reply-To: <199611142115.NAA10054@austin.polstra.com>
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On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, John Polstra wrote: > > Ack...that sounds like exactly the problem...I misunderstood > > the read() call :( > > > > Why does 512k work fine though? no data lose at all.... > > > > I'm going to code in your suggestion above, but I'm very > > curious now as to why 512bytes and 80bytes both work cleanly, but > > 256bytes "loses" data... > > It depends on so many things, all timing related. Tomorrow you might > try it again and see it behave entirely differently. Run the server on > a machine on the other side of the Internet, and it will behave > differently still. You just can't reliably predict what it's going to > do. > Okay, makes sense...I'll fix the code tonight, thanks... Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org
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