From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Add TCP connection abort IOCTL Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:30:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070327.153025.45876618.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20070327214754.GA11677@dag-work> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.ne, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: dagriego@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:49693 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934235AbXC0Wa1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:30:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070327214754.GA11677@dag-work> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: dagriego@gmail.com (David Griego) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:47:54 -0700 > Adds an IOCTL for aborting established TCP connections, and is > designed to be an HA performance improvement for cleaning up, failure > notification, and application termination. > > Signed-off-by: David Griego SO_LINGER with a zero linger time plus close() isn't working properly? There is no reason for this ioctl at all. Either existing facilities provide what you need or what you want is a protocol violation we can't do.