netdev - [patch v2] send.2: Add MSG

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Date:   Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:16:06 -0700
From:   Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>
To:     linux-man@...r.kernel.org,
        Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@...il.com>,
        Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: [patch v2] send.2: Add MSG_FASTOPEN flag

MSG_FASTOPEN flag is available since Linux 3.7. Add detailed description
in the manpage according to RFC7413.

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
---
Change in v2: corrected some format issues

 man2/send.2 | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man2/send.2 b/man2/send.2
index fd28fed90..acaa05be9 100644
--- a/man2/send.2
+++ b/man2/send.2
@@ -252,6 +252,38 @@ data on sockets that support this notion (e.g., of type
 the underlying protocol must also support
 .I out-of-band
 data.
+.TP
+.BR MSG_FASTOPEN " (since Linux 3.7)"
+Attempts TCP Fast Open (RFC7413) and sends data in the SYN like a
+combination of
+.BR connect (2)
+and
+.BR write (2),
+by performing an implicit
+.BR connect (2)
+operation.
+It blocks until the data is buffered and the handshake has completed.
+For a non-blocking socket,
+it returns the number of bytes buffered and sent in the SYN packet.
+If the cookie is not available locally,
+it returns
+.BR EINPROGRESS ,
+and sends a SYN with a Fast Open cookie request automatically.
+The caller needs to write the data again when the socket is connected.
+On errors,
+it sets the same
+.I errno
+as
+.BR connect (2)
+if the handshake fails.
+This flag requires enabling TCP Fast Open client support on sysctl
+.IR net.ipv4.tcp_fastopen .
+.IP
+Refer to
+.B TCP_FASTOPEN_CONNECT
+socket option in
+.BR tcp (7)
+for an alternative approach.
 .SS sendmsg()
 The definition of the
 .I msghdr
-- 
2.33.0.464.g1972c5931b-goog