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Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 12:00:58 -0800
Subject: Re: Routing Socket and New Addresses
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On Sunday, January 27, 2002, at 08:03 AM, Andrew wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Andrew wrote:
>
>> but it seems that if I don't read the packet with one read call then 
>> the
>> packet is lost. Is this correct behaviour? I guess if the buffer is 
>> small
>
> Well it seems that if you dont get the entire packet in one read it is
> lost forever. It also seems that no matter how many bytes you try and 
> read
> you only ever get one packet (though I haven't confirmed that for sure).
>
> If this is how it really works then perhaps it should be documented
> somewhere.

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.

Regards,

Justin

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