linux-kernel - Re: TCP connections come in wrong order

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Date:	Mon, 2 Feb 2015 15:07:45 +0000
From:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Askar Safin <safinaskar@...l.ru>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP connections come in wrong order

> If 'diff' doesn't report difference, then try again and again.
> 
> Is this a bug? I think that this is a bug.
> 
> Linux ideal-os 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt2-1 (2014-12-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> Debian 8.0 Jessie
> GNU C Library (Debian GLIBC 2.19-13) stable release version 2.19, by Roland McGrath et al.
> ==

No it's not a bug. Nothing in SuS or traditional BSD sockets guarantees
that connections are processed in strict time sequenced incoming order.

Alan
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