From: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, stuartm@connecttech.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP stack behaviour question
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:38:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060918153837.263210@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609181631.10625.ak@suse.de>
Von: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
> On Monday 18 September 2006 16:19, Stuart MacDonald wrote:
> > From: Andi Kleen [mailto:ak@suse.de]
> > > > # man 7 ip
> > > > ..
> > > > Note that TCP has no error queue; MSG_ERRQUEUE is
> > > > illegal on SOCK_STREAM sockets. Thus all errors are returned by
> > > > socket function return or SO_ERROR only.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe the man page is wrong? That's from my FC 3 install.
> > >
> > > The sentence is correct, but TCP has a IP_RECVERR that works
> > > differently without a queue. Basically it doesn't delay the error
> > > reporting for incoming ICMPs to the last retransmit, but reports
> > > them immediately. This is documented in tcp(7)
> >
> > I read that too, but didn't know which one was correct, so I erred on
> > the side of caution and believed ip(7).
>
> Ok maybe it's a bit misleading. Michael, you might want to clarify.
Can some one of you propose a better text please?
Cheers,
Michael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-18 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-15 17:28 TCP stack behaviour question Stuart MacDonald
2006-09-18 8:29 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-18 13:20 ` Stuart MacDonald
2006-09-18 13:54 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-18 14:19 ` Stuart MacDonald
2006-09-18 14:31 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-18 15:38 ` Michael Kerrisk [this message]
2006-09-18 17:01 ` Stuart MacDonald
2006-09-19 6:13 ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-09-19 6:47 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-19 14:50 ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-09-20 9:55 ` Andi Kleen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-09-18 18:29 Stuart MacDonald
2006-09-19 12:03 ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-09-19 14:00 ` Stuart MacDonald
2006-09-20 9:54 ` Andi Kleen
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