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> Interestingly, at this point in the man pages source there > is the following commented out text: Yes that was me. On second thought I suppose I was right back then that this feature is too dubious to be documented. So better keep it undocumented and drop the change. -Andi > > .\" FIXME . Is it a good idea to document that? It is a dubious feature. > .\" On > .\" .B SOCK_STREAM > .\" sockets, > .\" .I IP_RECVERR > .\" has slightly different semantics. Instead of > .\" saving the errors for the next timeout, it passes all incoming > .\" errors immediately to the user. > .\" This might be useful for very short-lived TCP connections which > .\" need fast error handling. Use this option with care: > .\" it makes TCP unreliable > .\" by not allowing it to recover properly from routing > .\" shifts and other normal > .\" conditions and breaks the protocol specification. > > Cheers, > > Michael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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