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From: 0004219666@MCIMAIL.COM (Bob Stine)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: how to control the size of TCP packets in BSD 4.3?
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Date: 20 Mar 91 14:15:00 GMT
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> In BSD 4.3 TCP (SunOS/Irix/whatever), is there an easy way to force a
> write(2) to immediately push a packet out to the network?

Get a stream pointer for the socket (fxxsomething or other), and then
issue an "fflush()" call after your writes.

- Bob Stine