netdev - Re: [PATCH] TCP_USER_TIMEOUT: a new socket option to specify max timeout before a TCP connection is aborted

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Message-ID: <1283200212.2405.14.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:30:12 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	hkchu@...gle.com, hannemann@...s.rwth-aachen.de, hagen@...u.net,
	lars.eggert@...ia.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] TCP_USER_TIMEOUT: a new socket option to specify max
 timeout before a TCP connection is aborted

Le lundi 30 août 2010 à 13:25 -0700, David Miller a écrit :

> I was just saying that it can result in unexpected situations.  The
> user can increase and increase the timeout they use, but to no effect
> because due to backoff the increase isn't adding any more probes at
> all.
> 
> In any event, I've applied your patch, let's see how this goes.



Jerry, could you please send a man update ?

http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man7/tcp.7.html

(To Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com> )

Thanks


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