> If the interface can drain an entire full-up send queue in the time
> required to realize send() failed and call it again, I submit you are
> running so close to the absolute maximum performance your hardware can
> deliver that you do not want a general-purpose OS like NetBSD

Heh, why couldn't we be a general-purpose OS unleashing the absolute
maximum performance of the hardware? That's sound like a very nice
marketing sentence :)

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
Le cahier de l'admin BSD 2eme ed. est dans toutes les bonnes librairies
http://www.eyrolles.com/Informatique/Livre/9782212114638/livre-bsd.php
manu@netbsd.org