Re: Question on select() and sockets

On Jun 13, 2:47 am, Rainer Weikusat <rweiku...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
David Schwartz <dav...@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.

But I never claimed that was the only relevant standard. That was your
claim, and it's false. I included the UDP standard with several other
standards and made a claim about all of them together.

[...]

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.

If you're going to resort to "that's what you think", don't bother
replying. If you have some kind of actual response to that, go for it.

DS
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