Hi
you can set the socket buffer size and also you can
find out how much data is in the send / recv Q for the
socket via an ioctl (cannot remember which 1) but i have
seen / used it before
James
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Greear" <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: "linux-net" <linux-net@vger.kernel.org>; <netdev@oss.sgi.com>; "Andi
Kleen" <ak@muc.de>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 7:06 PM
Subject: How to set the free-buffer-space for which select set a socket
writable.
> I'm looking for a way to make select wait for a certain amount of
> free-space in the write queue for UDP (and hopefully, TCP) socket.
>
> For instance, I want to send a 32k UDP packet, and I don't want
> select to tell me the socket is writable when there is only
> 4k of space available (because my resulting sendto of the 32k
> pkt will fail in this case).
>
> Is there a way to do this today? If not, any interest in
> accepting a patch that would give this functionality if
> I write one up?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
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