[OpenAFS-devel] .35 sec rx delay bug?

[Niklas Edmundsson]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Buhrmaster, Gary wrote:

>> Anyhow, encryption would also have
>> this effect.
>
> Well, it depends on the encryption style, but for most
> interesting encryptions, you are correct that the packet
> would fail to decrypt if the packet had errors.

I was referring to not being able to use sendfile() since it wants an 
(mmap:able) fd and not a buffer, and encryption usually means that the 
encrypted data ends up in a buffer from which it's sent to the client.

/Nikke
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