is RECVFROM atomic?

[Mitch Bunnell]

In article <615 at elan.elan.com> kg at elan.elan.com (Ken Greer) writes:
>Are packets received by recvfrom atomic?  That is, if I request 256

The packets are guaranteed to be atomic.  You will only get a partial
packet if your receive from buffer is too small.

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