> Uhm, are you sure? I have never seen that behaviour on any
> other Unix. If a socket is in blocking mode, writev (or send)
> is supposed to sleep until all is send or an error occurs. I
> would believe a lot software would break if write returned partial
> results on blocking software. On the reading side the bahaviour is
> known and the applications compensate for that. The description at
> <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xns/send.html> makes me
> believe that write/send shouldn't do partial things on blocking sockets.
I thought you were wrong, but now I think you are right (at least wrt Digital
Unix). Here is the Digital Unix man page:
http://alisa.ucsd.edu/cgi/webman?SEARCH+man2+write.2.gz
Jim
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