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		noselasd on May 28, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nginx 1.7.1 adds syslog support While it's certainly true that UDP is unreliable even on localhost, unix datagram sockets arn't, they have flow control.

IgorPartola on May 29, 2014 [–]

I have never seen a reference to this. Can you link a source?

atombender on May 31, 2014 | [–]

AF_UNIX with SOCK_STREAM will behave like TCP, in that a "full" stream will block. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1478975/unix-domain-socke..., for example.

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