On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Chris Friesen wrote:
> "Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > Hackers code sendto as:
> > sendto(s,...);
> > Professional programmers use:
> > (void)sendto(s,...);
> >
> > checking the return value is useless.
> >
> > Note that the man-page specifically states that ENOBUFS can't happen.
>
> I don't know what your manpage says, but my manpage doesn't say anything about
> ENOBUFS not being possible. From the man page:
>
> "ENOBUFS The system was unable to allocate an internal memory block. The
> operation may succeed when buffers become available."
ENOBUFS
The output queue for a network interface was full.
This generally indicates that the interface has
stopped sending, but may be caused by transient
congestion. (This cannot occur in Linux, packets
are just silently dropped when a device queue over
flows.)
Linux Man Page July 1999 1
Script done on Thu Feb 7 08:35:39 2002
Distributed with RedHat 7
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
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