Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: SO_SNDBUF makes select() hang | Date | Sat, 27 Jul 1996 10:51:03 +0100 (BST) |
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> Hm, while playing with setting SO_SNDBUF through setsockopt() I noticed > this behavior: if SO_SNDBUF is set low (I was trying 128) then select() > won't ever show the socket as available for writing.
We handle our send/receive buffers as including header sizes (ie sk_buff struct overhead) and the like. That means setting ultra low values won't work nicely for all sorts of pathalogical cases.
Alan
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