Re: strange TCP stack behiviour with write()es in pieces

[dean gaudet]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Michal Moskal wrote:

> 	void send_packet(int cmd, void *data, int len)
> 	{
> 		struct header h = { cmd, len };
>
> 		write(fd, &h, sizeof(h));
> 		write(fd, data, len);
> 	}

you should look into writev(2).

you might also want to look at this paper
<http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Heidemann97a.html>, it's probably
similar to the problems you're seeing.

-dean