Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:37:29 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sctp: if backlog is 0, listening shall not be deactivated. |
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> I will submit a requirest to change this behavior in the spec, but I am not > terribly optimistic. This has been specified for a very long time and there > might be applications taking advantage of the ability to shut listing off. > > At this time, let's leave this as is. A well written application should specify > the listen backlog anyway, otherwise it's depending on the "may" language in the > Posix spec and will not get consistent behavior across different systems.
Seems fair enough.
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