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On 6/17/22, Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote:
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> The stream abstraction is a nice (c)lean abstraction but it doesn't
> quite work for things like multicast or datagrams in general.

Every networking protocol I know of involves the exchange of discrete
packets of data and thus is inherently record-based.  In my
experience, layering a stream-oriented interface on top of that
usually means that the software at the layers above that have to take
extra measures to reconstruct the original record-oriented packets.

-Paul W.