Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2021-01-20

Documentation revision for TCP_USER_TIMEOUT in man7/tcp7

From: Enke Chen <hidden>
Date: 2021-01-09 05:20:45
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

diff --git a/man7/tcp.7 b/man7/tcp.7
index 6c91f058b..2ce831c90 100644
--- a/man7/tcp.7
+++ b/man7/tcp.7
@@ -1161,7 +1161,8 @@ This option takes an
 as an argument.
 When the value is greater than 0,
 it specifies the maximum amount of time in milliseconds that transmitted
-data may remain unacknowledged before TCP will forcibly close the
+data may remain unacknowledged, or bufferred data may remain untransmitted
+(due to zero window size) before TCP will forcibly close the
 corresponding connection and return
 .B ETIMEDOUT
 to the application.
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