17 Jun
2022
17 Jun
'22
7:43 p.m.
On 6/17/22, Bakul Shah <bakul(a)iitbombay.org> wrote:
The stream abstraction is a nice (c)lean abstraction but it doesn't
quite work for things like multicast or datagrams in general.
Every networking protocol I know of involves the exchange of discrete
packets of data and thus is inherently record-based. In my
experience, layering a stream-oriented interface on top of that
usually means that the software at the layers above that have to take
extra measures to reconstruct the original record-oriented packets.
-Paul W.