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I wonder why the OS does not let the application peek at upcoming incomplete data.



There is an API for this on Linux. It's used to checkpoint the state of a TCP connection, for example to move a live TCP connection to another machine incase you want to do zero downtime hardware replacement while keeping all TCP sockets open.




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