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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 <1296277175.15.0.337029421238.issue10882@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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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.
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