On Monday, January 28, 2002, at 05:03 PM, Andrew wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Justin C.Walker wrote:
>
>> It is and it is :-}. At least, Stevens discusses it in "Unix Network
>> Programming", v1, 2e (sec. 20.3). Different systems, alas, treat this
>> case differently.
>
> My section 20.3 is on UDP Datagram Trunctation...did you mean 17.3
> (Routing Sockets: Reading and Writing). I can't find any mention of this
> behaviour in either place mind you.
Maybe I misunderstood the original message; I thought this thread dealt
with the observed truncation of packets when read from a socket. 20.3
was what I intended, as it covers the observed behavior (at least,
that's my story, and I'm sticking with it :-]).
Regards,
Justin
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