Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:38:37 +0200 | From | "Michael Kerrisk" <> | Subject | Re: TCP stack behaviour question |
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Von: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> > On Monday 18 September 2006 16:19, Stuart MacDonald wrote: > > From: Andi Kleen [mailto:ak@suse.de] > > > > # man 7 ip > > > > .. > > > > Note that TCP has no error queue; MSG_ERRQUEUE is > > > > illegal on SOCK_STREAM sockets. Thus all errors are returned by > > > > socket function return or SO_ERROR only. > > > > > > > > Maybe the man page is wrong? That's from my FC 3 install. > > > > > > The sentence is correct, but TCP has a IP_RECVERR that works > > > differently without a queue. Basically it doesn't delay the error > > > reporting for incoming ICMPs to the last retransmit, but reports > > > them immediately. This is documented in tcp(7) > > > > I read that too, but didn't know which one was correct, so I erred on > > the side of caution and believed ip(7). > > Ok maybe it's a bit misleading. Michael, you might want to clarify.
Can some one of you propose a better text please?
Cheers,
Michael -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7
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