Re: Question on select() and sockets

David Schwartz <davids@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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.

You were refering to an 'UDP standard', and that's what I was writing
about.

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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,

That's one of your ideas about IP-implementations.
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