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From: rich@oxtrap.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: socket questions
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Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 21:58:43 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  7 21:58:43 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jul-87 02:54:17 EDT
Reply-To: rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill)
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Please forgive me,  these questions MUST have been discussed already
but I haven't been on the net regularly in over a year.

1. How big is a socket?
1.1 What is the largest message I can send on a datagram?
	(I presume this is domain dependent)
1.2 How much data can a writer write, (assume reader is asleep),
	before writer blocks (or returns error)?
2. Why aren't datagrams reliable in the UNIX domain?
	I can understand the overhead across a network of gaurenteeing
	this reliability and I've forced them to fail in the unix
	domain, but why?

I'm currently on a 4.2 port, (Sequent).

K. Richard Magill
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