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From: mitch@lynx.uucp (Mitch Bunnell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: is RECVFROM atomic?
Keywords: recv sockets
Message-ID: <6072@lynx.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 89 17:21:56 GMT
References: <615@elan.elan.com>
Reply-To: mitch@lynx.UUCP (Mitch Bunnell)
Organization: Lynx Real-Time Systems Inc, Campbell CA
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In article <615@elan.elan.com> kg@elan.elan.com (Ken Greer) writes:
>Are packets received by recvfrom atomic?  That is, if I request 256

The packets are guaranteed to be atomic.  You will only get a partial
packet if your receive from buffer is too small.

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Mitch Bunnell - Lynx Real-time systems
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