netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] net: diag: Support destroying TCP socketsr

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Date:	Tue, 15 Dec 2015 18:46:48 +0000
From:	"Rustad, Mark D" <mark.d.rustad@...el.com>
To:	Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>
CC:	Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>,
	Linux NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Hannes Frederic Sowa" <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Erik Kline <ek@...gle.com>, Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] net: diag: Support destroying TCP socketsr

Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com> wrote:

> I'd tend to agree that reset or abort would be preferable to destroy.
> After all... the socket doesn't actually go away.

Or maybe terminate? Reset kind of implies to me that it may resume operation. Abort could be ok. I think terminate is somewhat more neutral, if that makes sense.

--
Mark Rustad, Networking Division, Intel Corporation

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