Subject: Re: fixing send(2) semantics (kern/29750)
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/26/2005 23:52:44
On Mar 26, 2005, at 6:47 PM, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> I think you'd be better off to fix your application, instead of
> pursuing a (well-meant, but deeply misguided) attempt to "fix" the
> BSD networking code.
In all fairness, UDP sends shouldn't return an error in the case of
"dropping the packet". Instead, that ENOBUFS (we REALLY should add
an EQUEUEFULL) should simply get translated to no error, and the
packet dropped silently.
-- thorpej