Determine whether an application is blocked from sending due to limited buffer space

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When an application sends data to the network it does not directly send it to the network interface. The application makes a system call to send the data, the kernel copies the data into buffers until it can be sent out to the network interface, the system call then completes, and the application continues to run. The kernel sends the data out the network interface at some later time. However...

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