From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Chuck Winters <chuckw@ieee.org>
Subject: Efficient UDP Programming
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 23:08:35 -0400
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Is there anyway of reading some data from a UDP socket without removing
it from the received queue?  What I need to do is read in the header
from a packet to determine how large of a memory chunk I need to
allocate.

Thanks,
Chuck