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- .nr H2 1
- .\".ds RH "Out of band data
- .br
- .ne 2i
- .NH
- \s+2Out of band data\s0
- .PP
- Out of band data is a facility peculiar to the stream socket
- abstraction defined. Little agreement appears to exist as
- to what its semantics should be. TCP defines the notion of
- ``urgent data'' as in-line, while the NBS protocols [Burruss81]
- and numerous others provide a fully independent logical
- transmission channel along which out of band data is to be
- sent.
- In addition, the amount of the data which may be sent as an out
- of band message varies from protocol to protocol; everything
- from 1 bit to 16 bytes or more.
- .PP
- A stream socket's notion of out of band data has been defined
- as the lowest reasonable common denominator (at least reasonable
- in our minds);
- clearly this is subject to debate. Out of band data is expected
- to be transmitted out of the normal sequencing and flow control
- constraints of the data stream. A minimum of 1 byte of out of
- band data and one outstanding out of band message are expected to
- be supported by the protocol supporting a stream socket.
- It is a protocol's prerogative to support larger-sized messages, or
- more than one outstanding out of band message at a time.
- .PP
- Out of band data is maintained by the protocol and is usually not
- stored in the socket's receive queue.
- A socket-level option, SO_OOBINLINE,
- is provided to force out-of-band data to be placed in the normal
- receive queue when urgent data is received;
- this sometimes amelioriates problems due to loss of data
- when multiple out-of-band
- segments are received before the first has been passed to the user.
- The PRU_SENDOOB and PRU_RCVOOB
- requests to the \fIpr_usrreq\fP routine are used in sending and
- receiving data.
-