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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Sockets question...
To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
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> >But on a blocking socket, it doesn't make sense to have to issue multiple
> >system calls to read chunks of a whole message when you aren't going to
> >do anything with it until all the reads have been satisfied?
> 
> The CSRG apparently felt otherwise.

They didn't have threads or aioread.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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