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Re: [PATCH] solaris socket communications bug workaround


Gary Houston sez:
> As far as I remember (and checking the code it still seems so),
> sockets are not buffered by default.  They do get wrapped
> in unbuffered stdio streams for convenience.

This is true; we are making a call to setvbuf.

Chris.Bitmead@misys.com.au writes:
> Then how could this bug occur?

Who knows?  We're breaking the rules that stdio imposes on us, so it's
allowed to do anything it pleases.