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   Message 13,444 of 14,669   
   Rick Jones to Jorgen Grahn   
   Re: Can accept() block when the listener   
   01 Mar 10 17:57:12   
   
   From: rick.jones2@hp.com   
      
   Jorgen Grahn  wrote:   
      
   > No; we have beaten the subject half to death, and still that LKML   
   > thread did a much better job.  All arguments we have used were used   
   > there (even though they mostly talked about one specific case: a   
   > datagram with a bad checksum over UDP).   
      
   Isn't the issue with the bad UDP checksum a result of Linux's decision   
   to defer the checksum to the copy to user space?  That is to say, they   
   tried to do something clever that didn't quite fit with the implied   
   (via say age-old BSD) semantics of a socket?   
      
   rick jones   
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