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From: jseidman@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (James Seidman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Flushing sockets
Message-ID: <4385@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 14 Feb 90 06:22:42 GMT
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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I'm writing some socket code, and I need to make sure that a final message
goes out before I disconnect.  If I close the socket soon after writing
the message, it often doesn't make it out.  Putting in a sleep(1) between
the write and the close fixes the problem, but since this one program
serves several sockets, I don't want to do that.  Is there an equivalent
to fflush which works on sockets?  My system has a man page for a routine
called flush, but it appears to be only for assembly language routines.
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