netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: Add TCP_FORCE

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Date:   Thu, 23 Apr 2020 21:23:07 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Cambda Zhu <cambda@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dust Li <dust.li@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Tony Lu <tonylu@...ux.alibaba.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: Add TCP_FORCE_LINGER2 to TCP setsockopt



On 4/23/20 7:56 PM, Cambda Zhu wrote:
> 

> If the value between sysctl_tcp_fin_timeout and 2 minutes is legal, should we set tp->linger2
> to TCP_FIN_TIMEOUT_MAX or return an error instead of set it to zero which means the default value?

I would not send an error.

This might break some applications that could consider an error as a serious one.

(You can reuse my patch basically)