Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 10:13:58 -0600 (CST) From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: karl@mcs.net, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, scrappy@ki.net, jdp@polstra.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sockets question... Message-ID: <199611151613.KAA21230@Mercury.mcs.net> In-Reply-To: <199611150430.WAA27067@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Nov 14, 96 10:30:39 pm
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> > > Are you checking the return value from write() to make sure it actually > > > thinks that N bytes were _written_? > > > > > > ... JG > > > > Uh, hang on a second... > > > > Are you saying that the behavior of a *TCP* connection is such that you > > would expect to see a write(2) call to the socket come back with a short > > count for any reason other than the remote having closed or some other > > kind of transport error (ie: host unreachable, etc)? > > Yes: a nonblocking socket write will most definitely display this > behaviour. Yes, but I did not set nonblocking mode on that socket. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1's from $600 monthly to FULL DS-3 Service | 33 Analog Prefixes, 13 ISDN, Web servers $75/mo Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| Email to "info@mcs.net" WWW: http://www.mcs.net/ Fax: [+1 312 248-9865] | 2 FULL DS-3 Internet links; 400Mbps B/W Internal
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