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Author	rosslagerwall
Recipients	anacrolix, giampaolo.rodola, loewis, pitrou, rosslagerwall
Date	2011-01-29.04:59:33
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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OK, updated documentation and tests. > Why special case these? Why can't Mac OS X and FreeBSD write those manually into the output file descriptor. These can be a crucial part of certain protocols such as HTTP to ensure that a minimal amount of TCP packets are sent. Also, the posix module is supposed to expose the OS functionality transparently. Besides, if you don't want to use headers/trailers, they can simply be left out.

OK, updated documentation and tests.

> Why special case these? Why can't Mac OS X and FreeBSD write those manually into the output file descriptor.

These can be a crucial part of certain protocols such as HTTP to ensure that a minimal amount of TCP packets are sent. Also, the posix module is supposed to expose the OS functionality transparently. Besides, if you don't want to use headers/trailers, they can simply be left out.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-01-29 04:59:36	rosslagerwall	set	recipients: + rosslagerwall, loewis, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola, anacrolix
2011-01-29 04:59:35	rosslagerwall	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2011-01-29 04:59:34	rosslagerwall	link	issue10882 messages
2011-01-29 04:59:34	rosslagerwall	create