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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, weid@np.css.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [NET]: Please revert disallowing zero listen queues
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:54:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45EDB8C8.3030302@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070306.103706.68156515.davem@davemloft.net>

> So we're not "disallowing" a backlog argument of zero to
> listen().  We'll accept that just fine, the only thing that
> happens is that you'll get what you ask for, that being
> no connections :-)

I'm not sure where HP-UX inherited the 0 = 1 bit - perhaps from BSD, nor 
am I sure there is official chapter and verse, but:

<excerpt>
backlog is limited to the range of 0 to SOMAXCONN, which is 	defined in 
<sys/socket.h>.  SOMAXCONN is currently set to 4096.  If any other 
value is specified, the system automatically assigns the closest value 
     within the range.  A backlog of 0 specifies only 1 pending 
connection      is allowed at any given time.
</excerpt>

I don't have a Solaris, BSD or AIX manpage for listen handy to check 
them but would not be surprised to see they are similar.

rick jones

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-06 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-06 13:32 [NET]: Please revert disallowing zero listen queues Gerrit Renker
2007-03-06 18:37 ` David Miller
2007-03-06 18:45   ` David Miller
2007-03-06 18:54   ` Rick Jones [this message]
2007-03-06 19:11     ` David Miller
2007-03-09 19:14       ` Vlad Yasevich

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