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Re: Acknowledgement of sent bytes in non-blocking sockets

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On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 01:59:11 -0700, itt ium wrote:

> This means, if TCP stack failed to send any packets (because of
> retransmission  attempt exhaust),  their is no way for application to
> know dropped bytes. And these dropped byte are likely to corrupt the
> byte stream.

No. TCP will send bytes in order. If the retry limit is exceeded, the
connection will be closed, and subsequent operations on the socket will
report an error.

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Acknowledgement of sent bytes in non-blocking sockets ittium <ittium@gmail.com> - 2011-09-04 22:55 +0530
  Re: Acknowledgement of sent bytes in non-blocking sockets Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2011-09-04 14:07 -0400
  Re: Acknowledgement of sent bytes in non-blocking sockets David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> - 2011-09-04 15:33 -0700
    Re: Acknowledgement of sent bytes in non-blocking sockets itt ium <ittium@gmail.com> - 2011-09-05 01:59 -0700
      Re: Acknowledgement of sent bytes in non-blocking sockets Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-09-05 13:05 +0100
      Re: Acknowledgement of sent bytes in non-blocking sockets David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> - 2011-09-06 10:06 -0700
      Re: Acknowledgement of sent bytes in non-blocking sockets Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-09-07 02:49 +0100
      Re: Acknowledgement of sent bytes in non-blocking sockets Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> - 2011-09-07 18:28 +0000

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