netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: make urg+gso work for real this time

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Message-Id: <E1LD3vR-000753-Ja@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:27:25 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru (Alexey Kuznetsov)
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, ptesarik@...e.cz,
	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: make urg+gso work for real this time

Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru> wrote:
> 
> If you are serious about this, also it would be a good idea
> to make SO_OOBINLINE default option. Consider this. At least this
> will allow to trap applications which will corrupt data stream
> earlier.

Well enabling SO_OOBINLINE would contradict POSIX.  Much as I'd
like to have it on by default, I don't think it's really worth it.

In any case such applications will break right now because URG
notifications can be merged due to out-of-order delivery, which
would cause OOB data to go in-band.

Cheers,
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