Re: Question on select() and sockets

David Schwartz <davids@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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?

It will not be possible to explain this to someone who cannot
immediatly see the difference between both statement. So, please,
believe whatever you want and let us leave it that way.

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