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   From: rick.jones2@hp.com   
      
   adirtymindisajoyforever  wrote:   
   > I have a tcp socket created and send data over it using the "send"   
   > system call.   
      
   > Could this system call return without the data being acknowledged at   
   > the tcp level?   
      
   Yes.  In the abstract, there is no relationship between the send()   
   call returning and any of the data therein being ACKnowledged by the   
   remote or even yet sent onto the network.   
      
   rick jones   
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