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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] devip connect error state
Date: Thu,  9 Aug 2007 09:38:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a467fec1835875002df56b3d5df90693@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <775b8d190708082347t51a127cxcd90c884d4547223@mail.gmail.com>

>"why?" when it comes to sockets has always been
>swept under the carpet for all known functionality.

one surprise for me is that linux locks the socket
during i/o (good), but releases it in certain cases, so
writes from several processes are interleaved every so often (bad),
so it might just as well not bother with the overall lock anyway.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-09  8:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-08 20:59 Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-08-08 21:14 ` ron minnich
2007-08-08 21:19 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-08-09  3:33   ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-08-09  6:47     ` Bruce Ellis
2007-08-09  8:38       ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2007-08-08 21:48 ` Charles Forsyth

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