From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,80ae596d36288e8a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.teledata-fn.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: Why no socket package in the standard ? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <872169864327910446.796089rmhost.bauhaus-maps.arcor.de@news.arcor.de> <9cb23235-8824-43f4-92aa-d2e8d10e7d8c@ct4g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <4ddb5bd7$0$302$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4ddb81b8$0$7628$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> <4ddbc090$0$6582$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 09:52:23 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 May 2011 09:52:23 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: deb74abd.newsspool1.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=<;EA1@c;c\aPKPPVf;4hUjic==]BZ:afn4Fo<]lROoRa<`=YMgDjhgbf3;;Ikb25Bl[6LHn;2LCVn7enW;^6ZC`d\`mfM[68DCcJaV3OI5U@6a X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:20428 Date: 2011-05-25T09:52:23+02:00 List-Id: On Wed, 25 May 2011 01:20:53 +0200, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote: > What make the difference between > stream and non-stream, is the reliability… No, packets can be reliable as well. Stream enforces an sequential order on the data items. BTW, many, if not most industrial protocols, which use TCP/IP, add a packet layer on top of it. This makes packets reliable. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de