Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 22:15:18 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_socket.c uipc_socket2.c src/sys/sys socket.h Message-ID: <200006152115.WAA02253@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> of "Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:22:14 EDT." <200006152022.QAA13933@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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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.)
There has to be a cleaner way of doing this. Even stuffing a piece
of text into the kernel at boot time that happens to look like a
HTTP header would be better (well, marginally anyway).
> -GAWollman
>
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