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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: sockets
Keywords: sockets, primer
Message-ID: <3405@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 29 May 90 21:06:26 GMT
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>read(socket, buf, sizeof(buf)) is always returning sizeof(buf), even
>though that many characters weren't necessarily read into buf.

Are you absolutely certain of that?

>The man pages say something about ioctl(), and using
>"STREAMS message-nondiscard" mode, but I can't figure out how to do this.

You can't do that.  Sockets are not implemented as streams devices in
SunOS 4.x.