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caf 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: It's always TCP_NODELAY

Otherwise known as the "TCP is a stream-based abstraction, not a packet-based abstraction" bug.

A related one is failing to process the second of two complete commands that happen to arrive in the same recv() call.

lanstin 8 months ago [–]

I find these bugs to be a sign that the app is not using a good wrapper but just mostly gets lucky that the packet isn’t split randomly on the way.

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