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Re:How a little bit of TCP knowledge is essential by Animats on Saturday November 21, 2015 @10:12PM (#10608928)
Look up the history of the PUSH bit in TCP.
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Re:How a little bit of TCP knowledge is essential by Ono-Sendai on Sunday November 22, 2015 @08:35AM (#10610007)
Ok, and is there a portable way to set this PUSH bit in the sockets API? the semantics seem a little different as well since the PUSH bit seems to do something on the receiver side as well.
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