From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rick Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Add TCP connection abort IOCTL Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:04:24 -0700 Message-ID: <4609B108.7030302@hp.com> References: <20070327214754.GA11677@dag-work> <20070327.153025.45876618.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dagriego@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from palrel10.hp.com ([156.153.255.245]:58222 "EHLO palrel10.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752812AbXC1AEc (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:04:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070327.153025.45876618.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org > 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. I agree that 99 times out of ten such a mechanism serves only as a massive KLUDGE to paper-over application bugs. I'll also sadly point-out that such a mechanism exists in HP-UX 11.X and I suspect Solaris !-( I've spent probably the last decade or so attempting to discourage its use in the HP-UX space, but like some daemon from hell it just refuses to die. rick jones