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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Thu,  9 Aug 2007 09:38:37 +0100
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] devip connect error state
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>"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.