From: gwtmp01@...
Date: 2007-01-19T12:51:54+09:00
Subject: Re: local interprocess communication ideas.


On Jan 18, 2007, at 8:14 PM, ian dacek wrote:
> That's generally true of UDP, especially between two remote hosts  
> bridged by a router.

Memory allocation/starvation issues can cause lost UDP packets even  
to/from a single host. I'll bet there are other possibilities.  It is  
just a bad starting point to make the assumption that it will be  
reliable in your particular circumstance.  Of course there are  
circumstance in which in will work anyway.

If you know it is to/from the same host then Unix domain sockets  
might be an option.

In any case, I just wanted everyone reading that thread to be aware  
of the caveats of UDP-based protocols.

Gary Wright