netdev - Re: [PATCH][Trivial] tcp: correct code comment stating 3 min timeout for FIN

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Date:	Sun, 09 Feb 2014 19:14:53 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jj@...osbits.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][Trivial] tcp: correct code comment stating 3 min
 timeout for FIN_WAIT2, we only do 1 min

From: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 23:30:32 +0100 (CET)

> As far as I can tell we have used a default of 60 seconds for
> FIN_WAIT2 timeout for ages (since 2.x times??).
> 
> In any case, the timeout these days is 60 seconds, so the 3 min
> comment is wrong (and cost me a few minutes of my life when I was
> debugging a FIN_WAIT2 related problem in a userspace application and
> checked the kernel source for details).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>

Applied, thanks.
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