76 lines
3.6 KiB
Perl
76 lines
3.6 KiB
Perl
.\" $NetBSD: d.t,v 1.2 1998/01/09 06:55:52 perry Exp $
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.\" @(#)d.t 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/8/93
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.\".ds RH "Out of band data
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.br
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.ne 2i
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.NH
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\s+2Out of band data\s0
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.PP
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Out of band data is a facility peculiar to the stream socket
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abstraction defined. Little agreement appears to exist as
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to what its semantics should be. TCP defines the notion of
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``urgent data'' as in-line, while the NBS protocols [Burruss81]
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and numerous others provide a fully independent logical
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transmission channel along which out of band data is to be
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sent.
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In addition, the amount of the data which may be sent as an out
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of band message varies from protocol to protocol; everything
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from 1 bit to 16 bytes or more.
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.PP
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A stream socket's notion of out of band data has been defined
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as the lowest reasonable common denominator (at least reasonable
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in our minds);
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clearly this is subject to debate. Out of band data is expected
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to be transmitted out of the normal sequencing and flow control
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constraints of the data stream. A minimum of 1 byte of out of
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band data and one outstanding out of band message are expected to
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be supported by the protocol supporting a stream socket.
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It is a protocol's prerogative to support larger-sized messages, or
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more than one outstanding out of band message at a time.
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.PP
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Out of band data is maintained by the protocol and is usually not
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stored in the socket's receive queue.
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A socket-level option, SO_OOBINLINE,
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is provided to force out-of-band data to be placed in the normal
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receive queue when urgent data is received;
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this sometimes amelioriates problems due to loss of data
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when multiple out-of-band
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segments are received before the first has been passed to the user.
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The PRU_SENDOOB and PRU_RCVOOB
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requests to the \fIpr_usrreq\fP routine are used in sending and
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receiving data.
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