Re: UDP recvmsg blocks after select(), 2.6 bug?

Adam Heath
2004-10-07T08:28:55Z

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, bert hubert wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 09:50:10PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
>
> > It would be nice to know how other operating systems behave
> > when receiving UDP packets with bad checksums. Can someone
> > try BSD and Solaris?
>
> It does not matter - this behaviour should not be depended upon. There are
> lots of other reasons why a packet might in fact not be available, kernels
> are allowed to drop UDP packets at will.

I've been lurking and reading this thread with great interest. I had been
leaning towards thinking the kernel was wrong, until I read this email.

This is a very excellent point.