What does it mean to flush a socket?

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Published on 2009-05-27T06:41:36Z Indexed on 2013/11/03 3:54 UTC
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I don't really know much about sockets except how to read and write to them as if they were files. I know a little about using socket selectors. I don't get why you have to flush a socket, what's actually happening there? The bits just hang out somewhere in memory until they get pushed off? I read some things online about sockets, but it's all very abstract and high level.

What's actually happening here?

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