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RE: sending an empty UDP packet.
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'the sound of one packet flapping'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:27:43 +0100
- Subject: RE: sending an empty UDP packet.
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On 30 June 2006 12:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 30 19:18, Tanaka Akira wrote:
>> Hi. I have a trouble to send an empty UDP packet.
>
> Thanks for the bug report and especially the testcase. It's incredible
> but the check for a zero length packet has been introduced in 2002, 4
> years ago, and nobody has ever complained that it's wrong. Wow. Almost
> embarrassing.
>
> I've fixed that in current CVS. Check the next snapshot from
> http://cygwin.com/snapshots or wait for 1.5.20, which is really
> due soon now.
Sending no data with unreliable delivery (of that no data) is a bit too zen
for most, I guess ...
cheers,
DaveK
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