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From: Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com>
To: linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
	Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Subject: [patch] send.2: Add MSG_FASTOPEN flag
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 10:37:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210915173758.2608988-1-weiwan@google.com> (raw)

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

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> 
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
 man2/send.2 | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man2/send.2 b/man2/send.2
index fd28fed90..a40ae6214 100644
--- a/man2/send.2
+++ b/man2/send.2
@@ -252,6 +252,33 @@ 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
+.B 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 returns the same errno as
+.BR connect (2)
+if the handshake fails. This flag requires enabling TCP Fast Open
+client support on sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_fastopen.
+
+Refer to
+.B TCP_FASTOPEN_CONNECT
+socket option in
+.BR tcp (7)
+for an alternative approach.
 .SS sendmsg()
 The definition of the
 .I msghdr
-- 
2.33.0.309.g3052b89438-goog


             reply	other threads:[~2021-09-15 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-15 17:37 Wei Wang [this message]
2021-09-15 20:13 ` [patch] send.2: Add MSG_FASTOPEN flag Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-09-16 21:47   ` Wei Wang
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2017-02-01  1:37 Wei Wang

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