That kernel is beyond ancient -- a 2.4.9 errata kernel was released on the day that Red Hat 7.2 shipped. It is known buggy and superceeded by many kernels with substantial bugfixes. -ben On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:05:28PM +0530, madanagopal wrote: > hai, > We have a socket application in C which connects to a Java application > through TCP sockets. We use read() system call to read from the socket. > The Java application sends more than 20000 bytes of data sometimes. In the > C program, we read those bytes as Type,Length,Value fields where a > separate read() call is used for each field. This sometimes creates a data > corruption while it works other times. > We observe that the first 16384 bytes get read properly. Extra byte or > bytes get added in the 16385 th location and this shifts the bytes from > 16385 onwards. Because of this our C program gets confused and we are > forced to reopen the socket. This is not predictable. Suddenly this > problem occurs. Is this an already known issue and if so what > is it? How to solve it? > We are running both the applications in the same machine which runs > Red Hat Linux release 7.2 and its kernel version is 2.4.7-10 > - > : send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- "You know, I've seen some crystals do some pretty trippy shit, man." Don't Email: <dont@xxxxxxxxx>. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html