From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2004-11-27T14:10:32+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Multiplexer - linear non-blocking I/O

Hi,

From: "Tanaka Akira" <akr@m17n.org>
> 
> You'll see blocking problem with send when you send huge data.
> 
> Linux man page of send(2) says:
> 
> |       When  the message does not fit into the send buffer of the socket, send
> |       normally blocks, unless the socket has been placed in non-blocking  I/O
> |       mode.   In  non-blocking mode it would return EAGAIN in this case.  The
> |       select(2) call may be used to determine when it  is  possible  to  send
> |       more data.

Thank you for your patience.  I've been wrong about that
for years.

Now I'm suddenly extremely interested in the non-blocking
extension for Win32 ...  :)


Regards,

Bill