netdev - Re: [PATCH] TCP_USER_TIMEOUT: a new socket option to specify max timeout before a TCP connection is aborted

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Date:	Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:41:26 -0700
From:	Jerry Chu <hkchu@...gle.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, hannemann@...s.rwth-aachen.de,
	hagen@...u.net, lars.eggert@...ia.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] TCP_USER_TIMEOUT: a new socket option to specify max
 timeout before a TCP connection is aborted

Eric, will surly do but perhaps we should wait till Hagen gets his
TCP_ADV_UTO part so we can update the man page altogether in a
cohesive way (in case we're missing something, since he's on vacation
right now)?

Jerry

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> Le lundi 30 août 2010 à 13:25 -0700, David Miller a écrit :
>
>> I was just saying that it can result in unexpected situations.  The
>> user can increase and increase the timeout they use, but to no effect
>> because due to backoff the increase isn't adding any more probes at
>> all.
>>
>> In any event, I've applied your patch, let's see how this goes.
>
>
>
> Jerry, could you please send a man update ?
>
> http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man7/tcp.7.html
>
> (To Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com> )
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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