RHEL: udp send calls may return success even although transmission failed
Issue
- It is possible that under memory pressure UDP send calls may return the number of bytes sent even although the call failed due to memory constraints.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
- Application using the UDP protocol.
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