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Nick_C on Dec 11, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lamest bug we ever encountered

> although reliability is nice ... UDP

Would you not use send() with MSG_DONTWAIT? You get the reliability of TCP and you get feedback if there is any potential blocking. (But I certainly am not a socket guru.)

radarsat1 on Dec 11, 2011 [–]

Definitely, asserting non-blocking flags for the socket options is also a good idea.

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