On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Matt Mueller <mattmue...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ah thanks guys for the insights, this led me to do some more digging: > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/listen.2.html > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/accept.2.html > > - Looks like Listen() creates a socket and a backlog queue. > - When you call Dial(), the connection request gets stored in that backlog > - When you call Accept(), the connection gets dequeued and a new socket is > made for that connection > > What I still don't quite understand is, what happens to the written bytes > between Listen() and Accept()? Do they get buffered in that backlog queue as > well?
No, they are stored in the socket's buffer. The backlog queue is a queue of sockets. Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
