why you can't build a reliable TCP protocol without app-level acks... - Rainer Gerhards

Rainer Gerhards Tech Enthusiast. Nature Lover. Computer Geek. rsyslog lead developer. Again, there we are in the area of a reliable plain TCP transport. Some weeks ago, I noted down that plain tcp syslog is unreliable by design. Yesterday, Martin Schütte came up with his blog post “Reliable TCP Reconect made Easy“. In it, he describes how he thinks one can get around the limitations. I was more th

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So that's why a RPC library or something else is required.