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I know that UDP is inherently unreliable, but when connecting to localhost I would expect the kernel handles the connection differently since everything can be handled internally. So in this special case, is UDP considered a reliable protocol, or will the kernel still potentially junk some packets if buffers are overrun?
I repeat a previous answer to a related question. To remain portable always anticipate your UDP sockets might drop packets or receive out of order data.