Inside Macintosh: Networking With Open Transport / Part 1 - Open Transport Essentials

Chapter 10 - Advanced Topics

This chapter examines several topics that might be of interest once you are comfortable with the basic use of endpoints. These include

• acknowledging sends

• sending noncontiguous data

• ccessing data from Open Transport's internal receive buffers

• ending and receiving data without stripping header information

Before you read this chapter, you should be familiar with the material covered in the chapters "Providers" and "Endpoints".

The chapter "Advanced Topics Reference" describes the data structures and functions introduced in this chapter.

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Chapter Contents

Acknowledging Sends

Sending Noncontiguous Data

No-Copy Receiving

Using Raw Mode

Using Option Management to Set Raw Mode

Testing for Raw Mode Support

Sending and Receiving in Raw Mode at the Protocol Level