Re: MSG_WAITALL for send (was an interminably boring thread discussion)

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Fri, 26 Jun 1998 13:57:59 -0700 (PDT)


On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > use writev() and the thing you want to get out happens to be 2kB, I think
> > you currently get something like this on the wire with ethernet:
>
> Yes. Writev has horrible horrible MSS dependancies unless you do everything
> in one writev

..which is actually impossible on any connection that has multiple events
that depend on each other (ie http 1.1 or X).

Linus

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