linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sctp: if backlog is 0, listening shall not be deactivated.

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Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:36:32 -0500
From:	Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	Pierre Habouzit <pierre.habouzit@...ersec.com>,
	Wei Yongjun <yjwei@...fujitsu.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: if backlog is 0, listening shall not be deactivated.

Alan Cox wrote:
>> However SCTP API explicitly states that when the backlog is 0, listening is
>> disabled.  Here is an excerpt from the draft describing this:
> 
> POSIX is an established standard, SCTP is a draft proposal. POSIX should
> win. The SCTP developers need to bring their draft API into alignment with
> POSIX.
> 
> They need to fix their draft to use a sockopt or similar to
> enable/disable listening.
> 

Here is what POSIX says:

A backlog argument of 0 may allow the socket to accept connections, in which
case the length of the listen queue may be set to an implementation-defined
minimum value.


SCTP API simply chooses to ignore the "may".  It is still fully compliant
with POSIX in this regard.

-vlad
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