Re: [PATCH,BETA] new pipe code

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 11:22:12 EST


> Really? Can you give me a hint where to look at? I didnt find anything
> in the manpages. If unix sockets allow blocking write after a specifiable
> amount of data written (and not yet read) this would be really cool.

You can sort of get the result you want with the SO_SNDBUF/SO_RCVBUF socket
options. But those are armwaving general controls not precise ones. If
you want to get message boundaries and precise control I think it ends up
being a user space + datagram socket job

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