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   The server and client programs that use UDP are almost identical to
their TCP counterparts; only the PROTOCOL has changed. As before, it
does matter which side starts first. The receiving side blocks and
waits for the sender.  In this case, the receiver/client has to be
started first:

     # Server
     BEGIN {
       print strftime() |& "/inet/udp/8888/0/0"
       close("/inet/udp/8888/0/0")
     }

   The receiver is almost identical to the TCP receiver:

     # Client
     BEGIN {
       "/inet/udp/0/localhost/8888" |& getline
       print $0
       close("/inet/udp/0/localhost/8888")
     }

   UDP cannot guarantee that the datagrams at the receiving end will
arrive in exactly the same order they were sent. Some datagrams could be
lost, some doubled, and some out of order. But no overhead is necessary
to accomplish this. This unreliable behavior is good enough for tasks
such as data acquisition, logging, and even stateless services like NFS.


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