Re: Documentation revision for TCP_USER_TIMEOUT in man7/tcp7
From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <hidden>
Date: 2021-01-14 12:09:39
Hello Enke (and Eric), Thank you for the patch. Is this a change in behavior, or a better documentation of longstanding behavior? Eric, do you have an Ack/Review for this patch? Thanks, Michael On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 at 06:21, Enke Chen [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
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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