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UDP

A fast, fire-and-forget way to send network packets with no guarantee they arrive or arrive in order.

The User Datagram Protocol sends individual packets (datagrams) without first establishing a connection and without tracking delivery. That makes it lightweight and low-latency, at the cost of reliability — lost packets are simply lost. In mzOS2 it's exposed through file descriptors, so programs read and write it like a file.

See also

  • userspaceThe world where ordinary programs run, kept separate from the privileged core of the operating system.

Referenced by

virtio-net / virtio-pci · wget