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From: Enke Chen <enkechen2020@gmail.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, enkechen2020@gmail.com
Subject: Documentation revision for TCP_USER_TIMEOUT in man7/tcp7
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 21:19:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210109051946.GA4015@localhost.localdomain> (raw)

diff --git a/man7/tcp.7 b/man7/tcp.7
index 6c91f058b..2ce831c90 100644
--- a/man7/tcp.7
+++ b/man7/tcp.7
@@ -1161,7 +1161,8 @@ This option takes an
 as an argument.
 When the value is greater than 0,
 it specifies the maximum amount of time in milliseconds that transmitted
-data may remain unacknowledged before TCP will forcibly close the
+data may remain unacknowledged, or bufferred data may remain untransmitted
+(due to zero window size) before TCP will forcibly close the
 corresponding connection and return
 .B ETIMEDOUT
 to the application.

             reply	other threads:[~2021-01-09  5:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-09  5:19 Enke Chen [this message]
2021-01-14 12:08 ` Documentation revision for TCP_USER_TIMEOUT in man7/tcp7 Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-01-14 19:27   ` Enke Chen
2021-01-20 11:32     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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