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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Nagle algorithm
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Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:29:05 +0100
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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).  (an
> interesting variant was in a version of the Unix streams subsystem
> where there was a buffering module that could be pushed onto a tcp/ip
> stream.)

I'd totally agree.  That was the 8th Edition bufld (sp?).