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   Message 13,270 of 14,669   
   Rick Jones to glen herrmannsfeldt   
   Re: A very specific TCP question   
   14 Dec 09 22:37:43   
   
   From: rick.jones2@hp.com   
      
   glen herrmannsfeldt  wrote:   
   > Rick Jones  wrote:   
   > > Now, backing up from the questions themselves.  If an application   
   > > is simply dumping data into a socket associated with a TCP   
   > > connection, there can be as much as SO_SNDBUF data queued to the   
   > > socket that is not yet at the remote.  Similarly, there can be as   
   > > much as SO_RCVBUF data queued at the receiving TCP which has not   
   > > been recvieved by the remote application.   
      
   > It seems that on my system those are 0x1001 and 0x1002.  Are those   
   > the actual values, or flags for indicating the values?  Why the   
   > difference of one?   
      
   Flags for indicating which buffer's size one wishes to check/change in   
   a getsockopt() or setsockopt() call.   
      
   rick jones   
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