[erlang-questions] gen_sctp doesn't stream

[Raimo Niskanen]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 10:11:32AM +1100, Anthony Shipman wrote:
> gen_tcp does let me stream data. The driver will put data into a queue and 
> block my process when the queue reaches a high water mark. Then it will allow 
> the process to continue when the low water mark is reached. I can push data 
> into a socket continuously as fast as it will go.
> 
> The gen_sctp driver is built on the UDP driver. There is no queue. If I send 
> too many packets I just get an eagain error code. It seems that the best I can 
> do is to keep polling until I can send the next message.  Am I right?

Yes, unfortunately. So far that has not been an issue, but since SCTP in
this respect behaves more like TCP it would be desirable to have the same
behaviour. I will put it on our ToDo list...

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