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List:       spread-users
Subject:    Re: [Spread-users] SP_scat_multicast not sending the entire message
From:       Taj Khattra <taj.khattra () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-02-27 2:39:31
Message-ID: 57a21f730502261839515a5295 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:01:52 -0500, Tudor Dumitras <tdumitra@ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
> What does it mean when SP_scat_multicast() returns a positive number
> smaller than the size of the message that it is trying to send? Under
> what circumstances can this situation occur?

it means that one or more of calls to send() in
SP_internal_multicast() did not transmit all its bytes (and didn't
fail either) - SP_internal_multicast() does not seem to check for
this.

i think this would imply some sort of kernel network stack error or
kernel resource shortage.  have you observed this in practice?

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