From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-08-10T12:22:57+09:00
Subject: Re: event driven framework for ruby

Tanaka Akira wrote:
> In article <84D5D729-3674-4084-A092-2359932E2FF4@grayproductions.net>,
>   James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> writes:
> 
> 
>>Non-blocking IO is another solution.
> 
> 
> O_NONBLOCK is not always applicable.
> 
> * read from socket: works well by default. (O_NONBLOCK is not required.)
>   (UDP packet with wrong checksum on Linux 2.6 is an exception.)

Can you say a bit more about what happens differently on Linux 2.6 when
a UDP packet has a bad checksum? Is it a ruby behavior or a linux behavior?

(I'm working with wireless UDP on linux 2.6, having migrated from QNX,
so it sounds important to me...)

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