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Date:      Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:22:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams)
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_socket.c uipc_socket2.c src/sys/sys socket.h
Message-ID:  <200006152022.QAA13933@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200006151914.NAA25610@nomad.yogotech.com>
References:  <200006151818.LAA31278@freefall.freebsd.org> <200006151845.MAA25472@nomad.yogotech.com> <20000615120807.M18462@fw.wintelcom.net> <200006151914.NAA25610@nomad.yogotech.com>

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<<On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:14:24 -0600 (MDT), Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> said:

> Waiting until data is sent (or received) is a bad thing, IMO, and
> probably violates the TCP specifications.

The entirely sockets programming model ``violates'' the TCP
specifications.  (I put that in quotation marks because I don't think
anyone has seriously implemented the API suggested by the TCP
designers.)  This argument doesn't hold water.  (I, personally, think
it's the wrong way to go, but I understand the motivation for doing
it.)

-GAWollman

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