netdev - Re: [PATCH] NET: Add TCP connection abort IOCTL

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Message-Id: <20070327.153025.45876618.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:30:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dagriego@...il.com
Cc:	davem@...emloft.ne, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Add TCP connection abort IOCTL

From: dagriego@...il.com (David Griego)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:47:54 -0700

> Adds an IOCTL for aborting established TCP connections, and is
> designed to be an HA performance improvement for cleaning up, failure 
> notification, and application termination.
> 
> Signed-off-by:  David Griego <dagriego@...il.com>

SO_LINGER with a zero linger time plus close() isn't working
properly?

There is no reason for this ioctl at all.  Either existing
facilities provide what you need or what you want is a
protocol violation we can't do.

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