Re: Question on select() and sockets

On Jun 11, 4:15 am, Rainer Weikusat <rweiku...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The only 'relevant standards' here would be RFC768 ('user datagram
protocol') and RFC791 ('internet protocol'). Neither of both prohibits
cannibalism. Hence, anyone coming too close to a UDP implementation
runs the very real danger of being eaten by it.

Actually, no, since the semantics of things like 'select' and
'recvmsg' are specified by POSIX. In any event, I have no idea what
you mean by cannibalism. If you mean dropping a datagram, this should
never be any kind of big deal. One of IP's main points is that
implementations are free to drop datagrams, and UDP doesn't change
this, it's just a light wrapper over IP.

That's exactly as logical as your argumentation, its just a little
more obvious that I was writing about something outside of the scope
of this standard AS WELL.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

DS
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