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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Call queueing
Message-ID: <1284@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 88 06:32:00 GMT
References: <626@root44.co.uk> <[G.BBN.COM]29-Aug-88.11:18:41.CLYNN>
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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> [A disadvantage of the BSD networking model is that] a connection may
> proceed to the ESTABLISHED state and accept/ACKnowledge (usually 4K
> bytes of) data before the application-level peer (process) is even
> created.  [...] What if X were to place a "collect" call to such an
> implementation and send data; then the receiver process start up and
> decides it doesn't want to accept the call.  Who pays for the bytes?

Presumably in an environment where the notion of a "collect" call makes
sense, one doesn't use this model.  It would be fairly easy to add such
capability to BSD.

					der Mouse

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