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Subject: Re: Honoring SO_RCVLOWAT in proto_ops.poll methods
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From: swivel@shells.gnugeneration.com
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:32:14 -0500

> I'm using the pseudo-blocking recv() behavior achieved with SO_RCVTIMEO.
> Thus my app expects recv() to block until SO_RCVLOWAT is met or SO_RCVTIMEO
> expired.

But if you poll() properly, you'll never call recv() unless the amount
of bytes you want are there.

And since I fixed poll()'s handling of SO_RCVLOWAT it should mostly
work.