From: roy@panix.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Jorgen Grahn  wrote:   
      
   > Assume I do logging, similar to Unix syslog logging, over a TCP   
   > socket. The protocol is just a unidirectional stream of   
   > CRLF-terminated lines of text. Losing some of the lines is OK (and   
   > even desireable, when some error causes a storm of log messages) but   
   > losing parts of a line is not.   
      
   Your use case, "I need to obey record boundaries, and I don't mind if I   
   lose some records" sounds more like UDP than TCP.  What are you trying to   
   do with your TCP protocol that syslog over UDP doesn't already do for you?   
      
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