pepper@dasys1.UUCP (Angelique Wahlstedt) (04/01/88)
A few questions about sockets on 4.3 BSD...
Are sockets queue-bound in the same way FIFOs are? That is, if the
first block of data has been written to a socket but hasn't been
read yet by the time the second block of data comes, will the 2nd block
be put in a queue behind the first one? Or will the 1st block be over-
written?
If the answer for above is no, how do I go around to fix this, other than
writing code explicitly to support queues?
Another question: if I fix a socket not to block (via a fcntl and FNDELAY),
will the socket lose the property to queue blocks of data (assuming the
socket, in general, is queue-bound)?
Thanks in advance for any answers. Sorry if I sound a bit vague...
with *very* little documentation on sockets, I'm practically working
in the dark with them.
--
Angeli "Ms. Pepper" Wahlstedt
UUCP: wahlsted@handel.colostate.edu - or - ...!hao!handel!wahlsted
...!dasys1!pepper (Big Electric Cat)ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (04/03/88)
Sockets are queues.