Subj : Re: Threading and Timeouts
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Wed Jul 20 2005 04:34 pm


"Giancarlo Niccolai" <searchforme@ingoogle.com> wrote in message 
news:dbmbi4$ot9$1@newsread.albacom.net...

> No; if the underlying protocol can accept data fragmentation (i.e. TCP),
> write() will post to the network layer exactly the data that can pass in
> that moment (and will return how many characters have been delivered),

    Where do you find this guaranteed?

> If any of this weren't the case, then the POSIX specifications about
> select() wouldn't be possibly fulfilled, as it explicitly says that after
> that select() declares a socket ready, it MUST NOT BLOCK the very next
> operation for which select() was queried .

    It does not say that anywhere. You are totally making that up.

    DS

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