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Hi,

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 06:18:55PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:38:04 +0100
>     From:        David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
>     Message-ID:  <20030616093804.J3322@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>
>=20
>   | IIRC about the only thing the push flag mans is 'send this now and
>   | don't wait for any more data because there won't be any'.
>=20
> These days PUSH means essentially nothing.   Its intent was to tell
> the receiving TCP that it should deliver the data to the application
> (or at least make known to the application that data existed that
> could be fetched) rather than simply buffering it for sometime later.

Ah - so it's more or less the inverse of the Chaosnet
ack-delivery-to-application vs. ack-delivery-to-tcp-stack function.

Regards,
	-is

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