asynchronous
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... connections. It is also expected that the TCP can
asynchronously communicate with application programs. Although
considerable freedom is permitted to TCP implementors ...
... TCP and lower level protocol is essentially
unspecified except that it is assumed there is a mechanism whereby the
two levels can asynchronously pass information to each other.
Typically, one expects the lower level protocol to specify this
interface ...
... is critical for the support of distributed computing in which
components act asynchronously with respect to each other.
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... close anyway due to the timeout. In implementations of this
kind (synchronous), there will still be some asynchronous
signals, but these will deal with the connection itself, and not
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... segments arrive. This strategy permits increased throughput at
the cost of a more elaborate scheme (possibly asynchronous) to
notify the calling program that a PUSH has been seen or a buffer
...
... operating system environment provides a
means for the TCP to asynchronously signal the user program. When
the TCP does signal a user program, certain information is passed
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