Is there a way to flush a POSIX socket?

Question

Is there a standard call for flushing the transmit side of a POSIX socket all the way through to the remote end or does this need to be implemented as part of the user level

Answer 1

I think it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible to implement correctly. What is the meaning of "flush" in this context? Bytes transmitted to network? Bytes acknowledged by receiver's TCP stack? Bytes passed on to receiver's user-mode app? Bytes completely processed by user-mode app?

Looks like you need to do it at the app level...