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[Donn Cave]

Quoth Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid>:
...
| Can the remote process time out if the local side takes too long to
| read from the socket?  That could happen if the two machines aren't
| the same speed.

I wouldn't expect so.  I'm no expert in such things, but I would
expect the remote process to return from send(), and exit;  the
data would be waiting in a kernel mbuf on the local side

	Donn Cave, donn at drizzle.com