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From: smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven M. Bellovin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: preserving message boundaries
Message-ID: <11618@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 1 Jun 89 00:32:32 GMT
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TCP does not support record boundaries.  Thus, the recv() call cannot
preserve them, on any version of the UNIX system.

Yes, I'm certain.