Re: writev() BUGS!

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:46:43 +0100 (BST)


> With send(), on a BLOCKING socket, the socket should block until the
> data can be sent. If the length of the data is too great to send
> "atomically", send returns -1 with errno set to EMSGSIZE. This
> seems to mean that no partial messages are possible with a blocking
> send().

partial messages are available even on BSD with a send(). Take a signal
while waiting for buffer space

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