socket buffer flush question

[Laszlo Nagy]

Kiran i'rta:
> Hello Everybody!
>   I am writing a networking application in python for a small piece of
> hardware, in which there could sometimes be timeouts.  I am using
> sockets to communicate to this device.  Data that is sent to the device
> is instructions for that piece of hardware, and data recieved is just
> responses from that hardware.
>   When a timeout happens, for some reason extra data is stored inside
> the buffer, so when the timeout is over, that extra data (remember this
> data is instructions) is executed by the hardware, which I don't want.
>   
Did you try setsockopt and TCP_NODELAY? That can prevent buffering in 
some cases.

Laszlo