Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 06 Jun 1999 09:20:35 +0200
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com
Cc:        joelh@gnu.org, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?
Message-ID:  <34759.928653635@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 5 Jun 1999 23:27:23 -0700 (PDT)"
References:  <199906060627.XAA17722@apollo.backplane.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> :Huh?  I was just considering writing the patch for this.  What
> :application problems would this create?
> :
> :The worst thing I can see is that it would mean that changing the
> :timeout value on a running system wouldn't affect already opened
> :sockets.  Even that may be changable by an external utility if I can
> :think of a way to handle the locking in userland.
> :
> 
>    I see no use whatsoever for being able to specify per-socket keepalive
>    timeouts.

Well, if it was implemented with the TCP_KEEPALIVE option, it would be
one more part of the system that complied with the X/Open specifications.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?34759.928653635>