Re: Question on select() and sockets

On Jun 10, 5:05 am, Rainer Weikusat <rweiku...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In other words, a UDP datagram can be dropped at any time.

And this is wrong. If a UDP datagram is lost in transport for some
reason, it is the responsibility of the application to cope with that.
That's all what the protocol definition (of IP, actually) says to
this.

Umm, how's it wrong? What standard would be violated by an
implementation that threw away all UDP datagrams in receive queues if
it was low on memory? (Not that this would be a good thing to do, of
course, but it violates no standard.)

DS
.

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