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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Nagle algorithm
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Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 00:32:31 -0500
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> > i claim it's not the TCP/IP subsystem's responsibility to delay
> > sending something so that it can buffer up writes to make larger
> > packets.  that's for stdio or bio (or local OS equivalent).
>
> If there was a way for the user say when to set TCP's PUSH bit,
> would that do the job?

Why would you want this?  I thought the above
was a very effective argument.

Russ