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Message-ID: <20090114163729.3468d232@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:37:29 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
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.
> I will submit a requirest to change this behavior in the spec, but I am not
> terribly optimistic. This has been specified for a very long time and there
> might be applications taking advantage of the ability to shut listing off.
>
> At this time, let's leave this as is. A well written application should specify
> the listen backlog anyway, otherwise it's depending on the "may" language in the
> Posix spec and will not get consistent behavior across different systems.
Seems fair enough.
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