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

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Message-ID: <4609B108.7030302@hp.com>
Date:	Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:04:24 -0700
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	dagriego@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Add TCP connection abort IOCTL

> 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.

I agree that 99 times out of ten such a mechanism serves only as a 
massive KLUDGE to paper-over application bugs.  I'll also sadly 
point-out that such a mechanism exists in HP-UX 11.X and I suspect 
Solaris !-(  I've spent probably the last decade or so attempting to 
discourage its use in the HP-UX space, but like some daemon from hell it 
just refuses to die.

rick jones
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