[Spread-users] Re: SP_scat_multicast not sending the entire message

[Taj Khattra]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 17:45:45 -0500, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> As that says, there appears to be nothing in Stevens ("Unix Network
> Programming") to back the idea that blocking send() is all-or-nothing.

Tim is correct (as usual) - i wrote a little dummy program that loops
on send() with a 32KB buffer, and then bombarded it with SIGINTs.  on
both linux-2.4 and freebsd-5.3 send() indicated an occasional partial
write.