Alexey,
I agree; so just ignore the patch. You know you could have saved me
about an hour if you spoke earlier ;->
Eric, note what Alexey says. So to get enobufs please
use the sockoption to set IP_RECVERR
Someone should document this in the manpages.
cheers,
jamal
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello!
>
> > be propagated back to the socket level; please review and probably
> > apply:
>
> That was tried and failed miserably ages ago. Applications become
> insane when getting this error from logging tons of useless messages
> to abort()ing and cpu hogging. From the other hand silent reaction
> to loss is almost exactly desired behaviour in presence of congestion
> in the most of cases.
>
> I have no idea, why that OSes work. Probably, they are so great that
> never lose packets. We do.
>
> Probably, the world has changed since that time, but I have no desire
> to repeat the experiment to be honest.
>
> Alexey
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