Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Date: Tue Oct 31 2000 - 20:33:54 EST


Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> said:

[...]

> Also pay attention to the security aspects of a true "zero copy" TCP stack.
> It means that SOMETIMES a user buffer will recieve data that is destined
> for a different process.

Why? AFAIKS, given proper handling of the issues involved, this can't
happen (sure can get tricky, but can be done in principle. Or am I
off-base?)

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