I want to gather some info about what apps expect from setting
the SO_LINGER option with a non-zero linger time on a TCP socket.
Suppose after the specified linger timeout, some data still cannot
be sent or some data has not been ack'ed by the peer. In this
case, the close() will return an error as documented. But what do
apps expect the underlying TCP connection will behave? AFAIK,
there is no Solaris document which states what will happen to
the underlying TCP connection. Do apps expect that the connection
will be aborted after the timeout, the same behavior if a zero linger
time is set?
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K. Poon.
ka-cheong.p...@oracle.com
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