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From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
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Subject: Re: Blocking /non blocking
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Date: 11 Mar 91 13:29:28 GMT
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In article <7123@bgsuvax.UUCP> majumdar@bgsuvax.UUCP (anindo Majumdar) writes:
>
>Are the sendto and recvfom calls (between datagram sockets) blocking or
>non blocking? The manual says both cas return the no of bytes send/recd.
>Does this mean that the call blocks untill the no of bytes specified is sent
>or recd by the destination address.

I'd assume so, unless you did an fcntl(socket, F_SETFL, FNDELAY)
somewhere that would set it to non-blocking.  


			-Kartik

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